LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
TWO CAME BACK Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 12.39 p.m. on ist September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Black Rock sands and both occupants were in the sea. There...
Endeavour, Progress, Easter Morn, Prosperity, Venus, Gallilee, Provider
FEB. 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local...
Ma Jolie II,
Struck wreck WARDEN POINT COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Sheerness lifeboat station at 2046 on Saturday December 30, 1978, that a red flare had been sighted in Gillingham Reach. Maroons were fired at 2049 and at 2106...
Kunishi
FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that three pedigree cows had fallen over a cliff at Manorbier. Two of the cows were in a position which was inaccessible from...
THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
Category: Articles
Wind power in Shetland
The RNLI has installed its first station wind turbine, at Aith, Shetland – the charity’s most northerly lifeboat station. The turbine, a 20kW Westwind unit, was switched on in the Autumn of 2009 and should generate around 40,000kWh a...
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Ceremonies
London, April 14, 1988 The launch of an appeal to churches of all denominations in 1984 culminated in an historic ceremony at St Katharine Dock, London on Thursday, April 14, when the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Robert Runcie, MC, DD...
Category: Inaugurations
The Minesweeper Lord Darling
JULY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 1 A.M. the coastguard telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a vessel was ashore at Robin Hood’s Bay, and the No. 1 motor lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 1.30 A.M. The weather...
March 4th, 1824: March 4th, 1924
THE Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, " at a Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others, held at the City of London Tavern, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair." Such is the brief record...
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