LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dutch Sailing Lugger Johanna Marie
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Amethyst
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
The S.S. Torredon
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co.
Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly...
Royal Fern
On the 12th August, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.S.W., with a rough sea, a telegram was received from the coastguard at Port Cranstal, about a mile south of the Point of Ayre, stating that a vessel was ashore there and that...
The S.S. Amiral Aube
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND MARGATE.
—A message was received at Walton-onthe- Naze by telephone from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the morning of the 14th January, stating that a steamer was flying signals of distress 2J miles S,E...
Summary of a Meeting of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the Finance Committee be re-named "Finance and General Purposes Committee." Paid £27,617 Is. 7d. for the...
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat Dog of Aldeburgh
All kinds of memorials have been erected to man but among the more unusual is this one portraying the life-size model of a dog. It can be seen on the front at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast overlooking a children's model yacht pond. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launch St. Patrick and The Dredger Teardach
LIFE-BOAT OUT FOR 17 HOURS Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 11.10 on the evening of Thursday the 29th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the harbour master at Galway that the 35-foot launch St. Patrick of...
Plymouth Boy Wins Life-Boat Service Essay Competition
ROBERT ANTHONY FOALE of Hyde Park Junior School, Mutley, Plymouth, Devon, has won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the lifeboat service organized by the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The competition was open to...
Category: Articles
A R.A.F. Helicopter (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk - At 8 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, it was learned that a R.A.F. helicopter had crashed about half a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at...