LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Naval Patrol Drifter (1)
NOVEMBER 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 3.55 P.M. information was received from the naval base at Brightling sea that a ship had blown up. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a slight swell. The motor life-boat Edward Z.<...
Andromeda
During a strong breeze from the S.S.E., a thick fog, and a heavy sea, on the 15th March, signal guns were heard in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand Lightship.
The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched at...
Yla Section
SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...
Category: Articles
Three Station Secretaries
THE Institution has recently lost three very distinguished secretaries of life- boat stations, for whose long services it is very grateful.
Mr. Alexander Robertson, of Eastbourne Mr. Alexander Robertson, of East- bourne,...
Category: Obituaries
Rescue from Steamer Aground on Rocks
At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...
Category: Services
Filey's
Triumphant Julie Davidson receives her •crown from Filey's Coxswain Frank Jenkinson.
Her title, Filey Lifeboat Queen 1983-4, is contested each year in aid of the station.
Gordon Warley, of Primrose... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wyvern
Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate the crew 'on a first class service in the...
The Doyen of Honorary Secretaries
A VERY pleasant ceremony took place in the Guild Hall, Exeter, on the 24th July, when Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds, the Honorary Secretary of the Exeter Branch, and Mrs. Ferris Tozer, the Honorary ' Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, re...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ullen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
Category: Services
Melissa, of Aldeburgh
RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER News was received at Walnier, Kent, on 7th August, 1971, that an unknown number of survivors from a yacht had been placed on board the East Goodwin lightvessel after having been rescued by a Russian warship flotilla...