LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Empress of the French
BUT a few days since the British public were startled by the intelligence that the Empress of the French and her royal son, the Prince Imperial, had nearly lost their lives by drowning, on the coast of France.
We will...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
ORMES' HEAD, LLAKDUDNO.—On the 27th February, information was received here that a vessel was in distress in the bay. The wind was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time, and the sea was very rough.
The Sisters'...
Category: Services
Bottom - Festivities Carry on Well Into the Night
Bottom - Festivities carry on well into the night and lifeboats are left moored up alongside the Quay for all to see. - View image in PDF
Photo: David Porter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (76)
AUGUST 11TH. - TORBAY, AND EXMOUTH, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down between Exmouth and Teignmouth, but after putting out both lifeboats were recalled. - Rewards : Torbay, £3 17s. 6d. ; Exmouth, £7 0S. 6d.
Notes of the Quarter
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
Category: Articles
Obituary
The Institution deeply regrets the death of two of its vice-presidents who have given it long and distinguished service, Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., and Mr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, and of Vice- Admiral Sir Robert...
Category: Obituaries
Erin
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 10.10 on the night of the 17th of August, 1956, a message was received that the motor boat Erin was overdue from a fishing expedition. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at...
The Freighter Akbar Jayanti, of Bombay
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At noon on 3ist October, 1966, a seaman aboard the freighter Akbar Jayanti, of Bombay, required medical attention, as a cockroach had crawled into his ear, causing severe earache. The life-boat Guy and Clare...
Jubilee of the Walton and Frinton Station
THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a boy was trapped in a cave at Point Giltar. There was a strong south-westerly wind with a moderate sea and a heavy...