LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Smack Energy
JULY 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2.15 A.M. the KinnairdHead coastguard reported a vessel ashore, firing signals of distress, a quarter of a mile west of Cairnbulg lookout. A light N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a...
Octoroon, of Abersoch
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 10.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a small vessel drifting on to the Skerries. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat John and Mary...
New Brighton: Volunteers vs the giant
Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...
Category: Articles
The Patrol Boat Joseph
NOVEMBER 22ND. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 7.5 in the evening the naval authorities asked for the services of the lifeboat for a patrol boat which was in difficulties near the mouth of the harbour and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Since 1972, the Crystal Vaudeville Company, made up of local amateurs, has put on three successful seasons of Old Tyme Music Hall shows in Aberystwyth. All proceeds go to charity, and in 1974, for the second time, a donation was made to the...
Category: Donations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1863. THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meetings, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.
THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...
Category: Inaugurations
The Breadth of the Life-Boat Appeal
By EDGAR H. JOHNSON, F.C.I.S., District Organizing Secretary for the North of England.I HAVE recently addressed on behalf of tie Life-boat Service three very different audiences—the business men of Manchester at a luncheon of the Rotary Club...
Category: Articles
Day's
HARWICH.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Lifeboat in tow, went out on the morning of the 6th January, in a fresh gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cork...
The S.S. Bosphorus
GEEENORE, Co. LOOTH.—On the 3rd April, about 4.30 P.M., the Coastguard observed two steamers approachingCarlingford Lough from seaward, but not by the proper channel. The keepers of the Haulbowline Lighthouse therefore hoisted a signal and...