LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Communication With Stranded Vessels
COMMUNICATION WITH STRANDED VESSELS.
SIR,—I have recently read with painful interest strictures upon the failures on the Norfolk coast to establish prompt communication with a wrecked vessel. Few persons, indeed, are aware...
Category: Correspondence
Membership News
Governors Shoreline Storm Force Thank you As the New Year begins, the number of RNLI members now stands at a record 197,000. We would like to say thank you to every one of you for supporting the RNLI in 1991 - and look forward to your...
Category: Articles
Castrol Ltd
Britain's lifebo depend on so can you When engine dependability counts above all else, Castrol is chosen because it is proved safe for all engines ... on the sea, in the air and on the road. No other oil can match the Castrol total of...
Category: Advertisement
William, of Liverpool
On the 9th February, the schooner William of Liverpool ran ashore, during a heavy gale, a mile and a half west of Rhyl.
The tubular life-boat, stationed at Rhyl, was launched as soon as practicable, and proceeded to the...
Central Appeals Committee
A Central Appeals Committee of voluntary workers for the R.N.L.I. has been formed under the chairmanship of Mr. Norman Crumbie. Its terms of reference are: (i) To advise, through the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., on any matters affecting fund...
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat Tradition
IN May last the Institution awarded a Lifeboatman Statuette to Miss Trudy Haylett, of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, for her work for the Institution in Yar- mouth and Caister. The name of Haylett is famous in the Life-boat history of the East...
Category: Articles
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Bather in difficulty HUMBER COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Mablethorpe lifeboat station at 1634 on Friday August 19, 1983, that a bather was in difficulty at Theddlethorpe, about three miles to the north of the station....
Commercial Shipping: Taking Off the Crew
AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...
Category: Articles
Services Rendered By Motor Fishing-Boats Subsidised By the Institution In 1918
Lives 1918. saved, w Jan. 29. S.S. Butetown, of London. Mevagissey Motor Fishing-boat saved ... 21 w Feb. 4. A Seaplane. Dungeness Motor Fishing-boat saved 2 w ,, 11. S.S. Baku Standard. Gourdon Motor Fishing-boat...
Category: Services
The Admiralty Trawler Moray and Empire Ned (1)
DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....