LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles reviews the past year ...and the ones to come There have been a number of recent events which have made me more aware than usual of the Institution's continuing responsibility to provide a lifeboat service to the...
Category: Articles
Lowestoft Motor Life-Boat and the Airship R33
ON the morning of 16th April the airship JR33 broke away from her moorings at the aerodrome, at Pulham, in Norfolk, and was carried out to sea by a strong W.S.W. gale. She was seen to cross the coast at 10.15 A.M., obviously in diffi-...
Category: Articles
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...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their eighth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 3rd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.
As in previous years, they...
Category: Donations
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Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boats and the War. The King's Appreciation of the Institution's Work
THE KING'S APPRECIATION OF THE INSTITUTION'S WORK.
In reply to a letter from the Chairman of the Institution, drawing attention to the splendid services rendered by the Life-boats in connexion with the War, and the...
Category: Correspondence
News
A picture paints a thousand words Getting timely and dramatic images of the lifeboat service to the media is crucial to raising awareness. The RNLI is now investing in new cameras at selected lifeboat stations to bring the heroic work of the...
Category: Articles
The St. Govans Light-vessel
FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.
Govans Light-vessel as...
The Weather of 1873
THE public have to thank Dr. ALLNATT, of Frant, for an excellent review of the weather of the past twelve months. It is always pleasant to be able to correct one's vague recollections by an actual record; and there is, perhaps, no...
Category: Articles
The H.M.S. Spider & Condor
At 2.30 A.M. on the 22nd November the Coastguard reported that a steamer had grounded on the beach and was making signals of distress. The Coxswain, John Swan, therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Kentwell. On...