LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEA, AND LLAN- DDULAS, DENBIGHSHIRE.—One of the new self-righting Life-boats, with the water- ballast fittings, has been placed at Llan- ddwyn by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in the place of a smaller Boat...
Category: Articles
Daylight Reveals the Broken Up Wreck of La Morlaye on Whitley Beach
Daylight Reveals The Broken Up Wreck O/La Morlaye On Whitley Beach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prototypes of a New Fast Slipway Lifeboat
WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
Category: Articles
Committee of Management
FOUR new members have been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. They are Captain R. E.
Cowell, C.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.; Mr. P.
Denham Christie; Field-Marshal Sir Francis Festing, G.C.B....
Category: Committee
Naming Ceremonies and Dedications
Exmouth A WARM SUMMER'S DAY on the South Devon coast, royal visitors and a naming ceremony were guaranteed to bring holidaymakers, local inhabitants and lifeboat supporters to every vantage point in and around the Exmouth docks when...
Category: Inaugurations
Lines Written for "The Daniel J. Draper" Life-Boat
HE died at his post as a man should die, That Christian true and brave, Leading the way to the realms on high, Through the jaws of an ocean-grave! He served one Master, and that dear Lord Was with him that awful day, When the London...
Category: Poetry
When Stanley Brett District Engineer (North West) Retired After 38 Years Service Motor Mechanics from Lifeboat Stations In All Parts of the North West of England and W
When Stanley Brett, district engineer (north west), retired after 38 years service, motor mechanics from lifeboat stations in all parts of the north west of England and Wales gathered at the Grange Hotel, Rhyl, to wish him well. Mr Brett,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peep o ' Day, of Wrexford
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
May
Launches 41 Lives rescued 27
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down,...
Category: Services
The S.S. Clonlee
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 10th of July, 1952, the S.S. Clonlee, which had arrived off Workington from Algiers, laden with iron ore, radioed that she was short of food and asked for provisions. Her agents asked if the life-boat would...