LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Llanishen
Ten hour service to burning coaster Yarmouth South East Division The coxswain and crew of Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat John and Joy Wade have received a letter of thanks from the Director of the RNLI for their part in a 10-hour service...
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Dasher
Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....
Royal Commission on the Mercantile Marine
WE publish the following synopsis of the instructions given to the Royal Commission now inquiring into the condition of the Mercantile Marine of the United Kingdom, the same being given under Her Majesty's sign manual:— VICTORIA E. * * *...
Category: Articles
Painting the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN order to insure regularity in painting the life-boats of the Institution, and the use of the best description of paint, its Committee have decided on forwarding the requisite supply of paint, each year, direct from the...
Category: Articles
Schools for Sailors. First Article
EVERYTHING that concerns the moral welfare and improvement of the sailor is of primary importance to a Maritime Power, such as that of the British Empire. Her strength and her commercial prosperity are alike dependent on her strength at sea,...
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Patronita
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.50 on the morning of the 4th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yawl Patronita of Portsmouth needed help eight miles south-east of Hastings. This informa- tion had been received...
A Ferry
If there was ever any doubt that the RNLI's technical team designs its lifeboats so that they are sturdy enough to face the worst possible conditions, then the events of Sunday. 9 September were surely proof enough.
At...
The S.S. Vancouver
SEPT. 14TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless S O S call from the S.S. Vancouver City, of Bideford. She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons and had been...