LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Verbania and The Coal Hulk Black Miner
AP R I L 1 S T - 2 N D . - S T O R N O W A Y , ISLAND OF LEWIS. During the forenoon of the 1st April, a strong easterly wind sprang up increasing to a whole gale, with a rough sea. The harbour was very congested with vessels taking shelter....
Small Boats, a Dinghy and Red Peg
Small boats in trouble Tenby - West Division Tenby's D class inflatable Charlie B was called to three small-boat casualties in two days during the late spring bank holiday when strong westerly winds reached Force 8. Two calls on one day...
Well Oiled!
Well oiled! Ray Burden and his wife Deanna recently presented an oil painting of Weymouth lifeboat, Tony Vanderve/l, to coxswain Bob Runyeard.
Ray painted the picture and donated it to the station to mark the 20th... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Macedonia and the Robert Stevenson
On the 4th August this Life-boat was again launched to the assistance of the brigs Macedonia, of Blyth, bound from Havana to Peterhead, and the Robert Stevenson, of Shields, from Archangel to London, which vessels, having been caught in a...
R. and M. J. Charnley
At 6.45 A.M. on the 23rd February last, during a moderate S.W. wind, a vessel was observed ashore on the Goodwin Sands, and signal-guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel. The Bradford Lifeboat at once went out in tow of the harbour...
Topdal and the S.S. Kittiwake
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. — On the evening of the 6th October the Coxswain of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 received a telegram from Whitehaven warning him to watch for a barque coming up the Solway Firth. A strong gale was blowing from S.W....
Northern Star and Lord Londesborough
About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January the wind increased and the weather became very bad, which caused considerable anxiety for the safety of some of the cobles which had left for the fishing grounds earlier in the morning....
The Institution and the Coronation
Spithead Review FOUH life-boats took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen at Spithead on the 15th of June, 1953. Two of the life-boats were the new Campbeltown and Flamborough boats, City of Glas- gow II and...
Category: Articles
Income and Expenditure for 1949
1948 £ *. d.
148,673 4 1 360 4 2 .47,180 13 3 143 7 11 32,729 2 1 14,801 14 7 1,039 17 11 2,010 4 6 246,938 8 6 20,782 15 - 41 - - 2,165 17 6 2,652 4 6 1,816 6 5 181 2 6 27,639 5 11 27,042 18 8 23,516 4 7 198 18 10...
Category: Accounts
The Launch Intrinsic and Westwind
Beaumaris, Anglesey. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 6th of September, 1950, the launch Intrinsic broke from her moorings. There was a very rough sea and a strong south-south-westerly gale, but her crew were in no immediate danger...