LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter (1)
NOTES OFTHEQUARTER (from page 355) their efforts in collecting paperback books, enough money has been raised to provide replacements in due course for the inshore lifeboats at Beaumaris, Littlehampton, North Berwick and St. Agnes. A total of...
Category: Articles
Antaeus
The RNLI's chief of operations has written to the St Helier lifeboat station expressing thanks for the way in which the crew of the station's new Tyne class lifeboat Alexander Coutanche handled a service during the storm of 25...
Beaty
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—On the night of the 2nd October flares were seen about two miles north of Caister, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 11.15 P.M. A moderate south gale was...
The S.S. Heelsum
Soon after 11 A.M. on the 18th January telephone messages reached both Brix- ham and Torquay, stating a large steamer was making signals of distress between four and five miles to the N.E. of Berry Head. The Life-boats Betsey Newbon and...
Irb Launches on Service During the Months March, April and May 1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow, Lancashire Bembridge, Isle of...
Category: Services
The Barnett (Twin-Screw) Motor Life-Boat
From a drawing by Mr. S. W. Clatmorthy, presented to the Institution by the artist, and reproduced by permission of The Graphic.
THE BARNETT (TWIN-SCREW) MOTOR LIFE-BOAT.
60 feet by 15 feet. Fitted...
Category: Drawings
Noble Example
AT the Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in March last, Admiral Sir GEO. F. SEYMOUR, K.C.B., some time since Commander-in-Chief of H.M.'s Squadron on the North American Station, read the following interesting...
Category: Correspondence
From the Empire Overseas.
Many gifts have shown the generous interests of British people overseas in the life-boat service at home. The Government School at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, which has about a hundred scholars, has sent £50. The Kenya War Welfare Fund has...
Category: Articles
Wrecks
DURING the past week ending 16th December, 49 wrecks have been reported—making a total for the present year of 3,208.—Shipping Gazette.
Such is the brief but forcible record which has caught our eye as we were going to...
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A Yacht (2)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At i p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an 18-foot yacht had capsized off Fontagary and three people were clinging to her. The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was...