LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
One Event to Which People In and Around Narbeth Look Forward Each Year Is Narbeth Branch's Fork Supper the Queen's Hall Is Decorated With Flowers In Rnli Colours
One event to which people in and around Narbeth look forward each year is Narbeth branch's fork supper. The Queen's Hall is decorated with flowers in RNLI colours, flags, silhouette ships and lighthouses and even seagulls, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional figures show that in 1986 lifeboats launched 3,150 times and saved 1,260 lives.
In 1985 lifeboats launched 3,899 times (an average of nearly 11 times a day) and saved 1,747 lives (an average of...
Category: Articles
Humphrey Roberts
Humphrey Roberts - former Pwllheli Crew Member, Shore Helper, Tractor Driver, Deputy Launching Authority and Committee Member.
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st January to the 31st March 1878
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
IN the first quarter of 1961 exception- ally heavy demands were made on life- boat crews, as the figures for launches clearly reveal. The total number of launches on service in January, Febru- ary and March was 163. In the first three months...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 2.—The 51-Feet Barnett (Stromness) Type
THE 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat is a modification of the 60-feet Barnett Motor Life-boat which was described in The Lifeboat for last February. She is nearly as fast as the larger type (only half a knot less), but she has not...
Category: Articles
Seventeen Hours In Gale. Five Were Rescued from Yacht
A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...
Category: Services
Blackmail
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—-It was reported that a vessel was ashore and showing signals of distress, on the north side of Lune at midnight on the 28th October, during a strong N.W. breeze. 'The Child of Hale Life-boat promptly went to her...
Ada
TYNEMOTJTH.—The keteh Ada, of Harwich, bound from London, and laden with timber, was nearing the Tyne in a very high sea and very stormy weather on the evening of the 25th November, when she was struck by a heavy sea and her rudder carried...
Thomas
NEW BRIGHTON.—Signal rockets indicating that the services of the Life-boatwere required, having been fired by the Light-vessel and Coastguard Station on the night of the 14th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Henry RicJiardson pnt off in tow of...