LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
During a Visit to the Shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh Inspected Two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-Foot Steel Life-Boats Which Were Then Nearing Completion
During a visit to the shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh inspected two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-foot steel life-boats which were then Hearing completion. Pictured with the Duke is Mr. Harry L. Dowsett (right),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Points Castle, of Swansea
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.—- At 12.45 P.M. on the 21st June a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks on the east side of the Old Head of Kinsale. The sea was smooth but there was a very thick fog. The motor life-boat...
The Fundraisers
Appeal reaches £75,000 BBC Radio Cleveland's Lifeboat 2000 Appeal has now reached the target of €75,000 to purchase an Atlantic 75 class inshore lifeboat for Hartiepool.
The news was broken to thousands of...
Category: Articles
Features
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
Category: Articles
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for August, September and October 1998 Aberdeen Arun: Aug 29 Aberdovey Atlantic 21: Aug 12and 19 (twice) Abersoch Atlantic 21: Aug 1, 7, 20, 21, 30 and 31 Aberystwyth Atlantic 75: Aug 11, 23, 29, 30...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED in 1824.— SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Crew Member Recovered After Going Overboard
AT 7.8 on the evening of the 18th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Banff informed Coxswain William Pirie of Whitehills that red flares had been seen four miles off Portsoy. At 7.30 the Whitehills life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No....
Category: Services
Amice
MOTOR CRUISER ON THE GOODWINS Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.48 in the morn- ing of the 29th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a small vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands about three miles west by north of the East Goodwin Light-vessel and the...
Vellum for Trinity House Pilot
A Trinity House pilot at Alderney, Mr. Nicholas James Allen, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution incsribed on vellum for the rescue of 20 members of the crew of a Greek tanker.
At 11.30 on the morning of 23rd...
Category: Awards
The Use of Oil for Smoothing Troubled Waters
WITH the view of diminishing the serious loss of life which takes place every year from fishing-vessels both on the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the North Sea, and other fishing grounds, the Com- mittee of the NATIONAL SEA FISHERIES...
Category: Articles