LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gift from a Will
THE Institution has received a gift of £50 from the surviving brother and sister of a marine surveyor in Wales who died intestate at the end of 1951.
They write that they know their brother had a great admiration for...
Category: Donations
Awards to Honorary Workers—1958 and 1959
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
The Henry Blogg
The new Cromer life-boat, of the 46-ft. Watson cabin type, with steering amidships Built in 1945. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rayella
MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an onshore gale three...
La Quinta
Injured seaman A TANKER, La Quinta, approaching Salcombe bound for Liverpool with a member of her crew seriously injured was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1157 on Saturday, 21 May. A...
North Britain, of Southampton
.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
ONE of the happiest and most success- ful of annual Life-boat functions is the summer Road "Exercise and Launch of the Cullercoats Life-boat at Whitley Bay. On that day the Fishwives of Cullercoats, headed by Mrs. Mary Scott, th;...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ALL through the current year the cry of "bad business" and "no business" has been resounding through| the land, north, south, east and west, and the general depression, which seems to have settled upon us, might...
Category: Articles
The Second Fore and Aft Skin Has Been Laid and the First Strake of the Third Skin Is Fitted Into Place This Third Skin Is Laid on the Opposite Diagonal to the First Skin
The second, fore and aft, skin has been laid, and the first strake of the third skin is fitted into place. This third skin is laid on the opposite diagonal to the first skin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in August were Carried out by the Following Stations
Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...
Category: Services