Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.28 p.m. on 12th September, 1966, red flares were sighted in Weymouth Bay. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at 8.48 in a strong westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She proceeded to a...
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for November and December WS and January and February 7999 Aberdeen Arun: Nov 12 (twice), 18, Jan 12, 13, 21 and 24 D Class: Jan 13 and 24 Achill Island Arun: Feb 27 Aith Severn: Jan 10, 31 and Feb 9...
Category: Services
THE RIGHT Hos. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.C., M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P.
Seconded by The Right Hon.
the Earl of MOUNT...
Category: Meetings
By the death of Mrs. Finch of Chelms- ford, on 15th August, the Institution has lost an honorary worker whose devotion to the life-boat service was shown by her refusal to give up her work for it, even when disabled by serious illness. Mrs....
Category: Obituaries
ON the morning of 24th March, a very cold morning, with a heavy sea running, the Boulmer Life-boat was launched to stand by seven returning fishing boats of Craster, which, owing to the heavy seas breaking right across the Bar, would find it...
Category: Articles
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— On the afternoon of 16th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that he had seen the sailing boat Sea-gull, of Lowestoft, capsize about three miles south of the harbour entrance. A fresh south breeze...
2007: the experimental FcB2 is unveiled – the future face of carriage-launched all-weather lifeboats? Photo: Tony Roddam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A. R. Pari Huws is researching the history of the 32ft Surf Lifeboat class (see letter above) and is particularly interested in details of the unusual Hotchkiss Internal Cone propulsion system used on many of the class.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) Crowds file past the ropework display on the depot 'nature trail'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the 22nd August, the French smack Jules Josephine, of Reyneville, was totally wrecked on the Doom Bar Sands. It was blowing a heavy gale from W.N.W. at the time. The City of Bristol life-boat, Albert Edward, so named after H.K.H. the...