LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Getting to Know Her
The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...
Category: Articles
Maid of Linney
MOTOR BOAT'S CREW BURN RAGS AS SIGNALS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 5th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting in Freshwater West Bay and was flashing a torch....
The "Gorden Warren."
A motor life-boat of the 32-feet surf type which replaced the tubular life-boat at Rhyl in 1939.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Olwyn Lloyd President of Conway Ilb Station and An Honorary Life Governor of the Rnll
Mrs Olwyn Lloyd, president of Conway ILB Station and an Honorary Life Governor of the RNLL. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) the Lifejacket Consists of Three Layers of Polyurethane Coated Nylon Joined to Make Two Stoles.
(Right) The Lifejacket Consists of Three Layers of Polyurethane Coated Nylon Joined To Make Two Stoles.`. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1909
THE RIGHT HON. LORD GEORGE F. HAMILTON, G.C.S.I., is THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and...
Category: Meetings
Gallant Life-Boat Services In 1899
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.
AT about 12.5 a.m., on the 30th September, 1899, the Coastguard on duty reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Great Yarmouth.
At...
Category: Services
The S.S. Glendun
FEBRUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 A.M. it was reported that a steamer was ashore one and a half miles S.W.
of Maughold Head and was making distress signals. A S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
Richard and Emily and Ella
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 23rd December, 1886, signals of distress were observed about a mile distant from Winterton, during a strong N. gale aad a very heavy sea, shown by two vessels which had been in collision. The...
BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
The...
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