LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies In 1964
PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the Institution's President, will name the new Llandudno life-boat on 15th May and the new St. David's life-boat on igth May. At the time of going to press dates for other cere- monies have not been...
Category: Inaugurations
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd., of Littlehampton for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.
COMPASSES Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses, post free on...
Category: Advertisement
(Left) E Mangold (R) Was Presented With a Plaque Earlier This Year By George Powell Organising Secretary North London Mr Mangold Who Is In His Mid 70S Has Raised £9
(Left) E. Mangold (r.) was presented with a plaque earlier this year by George Powell, organising secretary North London. Mr Mangold, who is in his mid 70s, has raised £925 for the RNLI since he first collected for Wood Green Branch in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Cormorant, of Kirkwall
On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.
was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...
Gwylan
GALE WARNING GIVEN New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.45 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties in very rough seas on the New Quay side of Ynys Lochtyn.
The tide...
The Radio Ship Mi Amigo
Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio ship Mi Amigo had...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXVII. BRIGHTON.— The Robert Bailees, 32 feet by 7} feet, 10 oars.
IT is not our intention here to enter into a description of so well known a town as Brighton, which has been so happily described as "London by the...
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats. Over £500 Collected In Five Years
THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Boat
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...
H.M. Submarine Universal (2)
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...