LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The P&O Liner Oceana and The German Barque Pisagua
The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March with the German barque Pisagua.
The...
Their Business In Great Waters. Mr. Louis N. Parker's Life-Boat Play
WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...
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Index to Advertisers
Morecambe, Lancashire D class inflatable: March 8 (twice), April 22, May 12, 28 and 30 Mudeford, Dorset Relief D class inflatable: March 8, 16 and 28 D class inflatable: March 28, April 14, 30, May 2 (twice), 16 and 18 The Mumbles, West...
Category: Index
Lifeboat Launches
Lifeboat launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1973 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 20 and October 7.
Angle, Pembrokeshire September 5 and 22.
Anstruther, Fife September...
Category: Services
Righting Trials of the First 37' Oakley Lifeboat to Be Fitted With Radar
ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...
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Books
The Cromer Lifeboats by Bob Malster and Peter Stibbons (Poppyland Publishing), available from Cromer RNLI honorary secretary, 33 Hillside, Cromer, Norfolk, for £1.20 plus 25p post and packing, is the third edition of booklets about the...
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Annual Report. 1903
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Sep 7,16, Dec 12,23 D-470:Nov 27,Dec 12,27 D-536:Sep 3,7,Oct 5,22, Nov 17 ABERDOVEY B-758:Aug21,28(x2),29(x4), 30(x2) Sep 1,14,Oct 16,Nov 12 ABERSOCH B-590:Sep 16 B-790:Sep 18,25 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Sep 1,7,9,Oct 1,9,...
Category: Services
IRB Launches North-West District
Rescues by IRBs in August were carried out by the following stations: Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m. on 8th August, 1966, a small boat was reported drifting out to sea off Moelfre island. The IRB was launched at 5 o'clock in a moderate...
Category: Services
Launches
istings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Oct3 D-536:Oa3 ABERDOVEY B-754:Oc5 B-75ft Sep 12; Nov 28 ABERYSTWYTH B-70*Sepl2.15.20;Nov8 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28):Sep30; Oct 12,24.25 AITH ON-1232(17-14):Sep20 ALDE8URCH ON-1184(12-2S)Dec 16 D-52ft Nov...
Category: Services