the 14th November the Life -boat Licensed Victualler was launched to rescue a boy who had bee.n left on board the smack Mermaid, of Grimsby, which vessel had parted from her cables while in charge of the boy and grounded 200 yards from the...
Dungeness, Kent. At 10.41 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1960, thecoastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel towing a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down.
She was drifting broadside and flying a...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.14 p.m. on 7th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the tanker Metco advising him that two men were drifting past her in lifejackets. A further...
A diorama, depicting the launch of Arbroath lifeboat Robert Lindsay in the tremendous storms of October 26, 1953, made by the Army Apprentices College Model Club, Arborfield, Reading, was entered by Berkshire branch in the national... - View image in PDF
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To aaaompany the Life Boat Journal.
WRECK CHART OF THE BRITISH ISLES FOR THE YEAR 1912-13.
(Compiled from the Board of Trade Wreck Register), Showing the Wrecks and serious Casualties. Also the Lifeboat...
Category: Charts
MOTOR BOAT RESCUES CANOEISTS Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 19th August, 1962, the Dalkey civic guard informed the honorary secretary that a canoe, which had a crew of two, had capsized off Dalkey Island, and at 4...
EX-COXSWAIN JOHN HOWELLS, of Fish- guard, died on 14th March at the age of 72. He was Coxswain of the Fishguard Life-boat from 1910 to 1921.. In December, 1920, he was awarded the Institution's Gold Medal for the ser- vice to the Dutch...
Category: Obituaries
Guide Friendship I is launched at Aberdovey after being handed over to the Institution by Mrs. - View image in PDF
D. Parker-Bowles, Commonwealth Guide Commissioner. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Janet Walker. - View image in PDF
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POINT or AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and FORMBY (LANCASHIRE).—As previously mentioned in The Life-boat, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, having taken over these stations from the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, has replaced the Life-boats on...
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On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...