LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kingfisher
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 4.20 p.m. on 30th December, 1966, a small motor cruiser was seen to be in difficulties about a quarter of a mile north east of the harbour entrance.
The Life-boat Louise Stephens...
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
INDEX TO THE LIFE-BOAT STATIONS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Thefigures refer to the numbers of the life-boats detailed on pages 42-53.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 167. Drogheda, Ireland, 265. Littlehaven,...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE annual meeting of the committee of this fund, of which H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH is patron, was held on the 11th January last at the General Post Office, W. H. HAINES, Esq., 1 of the House of Lords, occupying the...
Category: Meetings
Kate and Mary, of Arklow
On the llth Sep- tember, the smack Kate and Mary, of Ark- low, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position during a fierce gale of wind from the S.E., a boy only having been left on board. The Arundel Vendbles life-boat, stationed...
Le Rondel
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 5 p.m.
on 18th June, 1967, it was learned that a yacht was in difficulties in the surf one mile east at the No. 8 buoy. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 5.36in a fresh north west...
Goldfinder, of Belfast
Again, on the night of the 10th Oct., this Life-boat was instrumental in saving the schooner Qoldfinder, of Belfast, which was on the point of beaching on the lee side of the Bay in a S.W. gale, by signalling to a steam-tug, which, with the...
Fanny, of Salcombe
On January 3 the schooner Fanny, of Salcombe, bound from Cardiff to Barbadoes, became a total wreck in Tramore Bay, county Waterford. The vessel had been observed, soon after noon, trying to beat out of the Bay, into "which a heavy sea,...
(Below) Selsey Lifeboat John and Henry Skynner
(Below) Se/sey lifeboat John and Henry Skynner was built in 1885 and took part in the London Lord Mayor's Show of that year before going on station. She was 35ft long. 7ft 6in beam, pulled ten oars and was fitted with water ballast tanks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Central Appeals Committee
WHO WE ARE—We are a group of voluntary workers, each associated with a branch or guild, who believe that the financial needs of the R.N.L.I. are urgent and that the new money necessary to meet the previous deficits and rising costs can be...
Category: Committee
Audrey
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorsetshire.— At eight o'clock in the evening of the 4th of September, 1949, the South bourne coastguard reported that a small vessel was on fire near Poole harbour entrance.
At 8.5 the life-boat...