LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Jessie Ray
On the 13th March the Life-boat was again called out, a mounted messenger arriving at SAO P.M. and reporting a schooner in danger of running aground on the rocks. The Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found she was the Jessie Ray, of...
Award to Life Saving Companies for Best Service
MR. JOHN BOYD-CARPENTER, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year to be held jointly by the rocket coast life saving companies of Sea Palling and Winterton. Norfolk.
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Category: Awards
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
Second-Coxswain John Roberts, Llandulas
SECOND-COXSWAIN JOHN ROBERTS, of Llandulas, who died in May, 1939, at the age of 77, was second-coxswain of the Llandulas life-boat for 27 years, from 1891 to 1918. On his retirement he was awarded a pension by the Insti- tution. His...
Category: Obituaries
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1885
THE abstracts from the Wreck Register for the year ended the 30th June 1885, which, owing to circumstances, were not published by the Board of Trade in 1886, have now been issued, and are full of interesting matter. We propose, in ac-...
Category: Articles
August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
Category: Services
New Boat-House for Rhyl
THE new life-boat house at Rhyl was formally opened by the Countess Howe at a ceremony on the 27th of June, 1956. Lord Langford, vice-president of the Rhyl branch, wras in the chair.
Earl Howe, Chairman of the Commit- tee...
Category: Inaugurations
Your Letters
Reduce the risks Given the antics of condemed yachtsman Eric Abbott who 'navigates' by road maps, isn't it time to formalise some form of mandatory training before people put to sea. This guy shows total contempt for the...
Category: Correspondence
Life-Saving Hammocks and Mattresses
IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...
Category: Articles
Listings
Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...
Category: Articles