LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (127)
AUGUST 28TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea about 11.30 in the morning, off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, twenty miles away on the other side of Caernarvon Bay, and at 12.36...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GREAT YARMOUTH. — The small surf Life-boat on this station, the Duff, went off on the 16th January, 1871, to the brig Flora, of Poole, which had parted her anchors and gone on the beach during a strong gale from the South. Proceeding through...
Category: Services
(Above) a Long Service for Donaghadee Lifeboat: on July 17 1956 Mv Douglas of Bergen Went Ashore at the Maidens on An Ebbing Tide Sir Samuel Kelly Slipping Her M
(Above) A long service for Donaghadee lifeboat: On July 17, 1956, MV Douglas, of Bergen, went ashore at the Maidens on an ebbing tide. Sir Samuel Kelly, slipping her moorings at 0830, found her hard and fast on the rocks, holed and taking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting
THE hundred and eleventh annual meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Friday, 5th April.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided,...
Category: Meetings
When An Emergency Arises In a Particular Area of Sea, a Print-Out of Amver Vessels In a Specified Area Is Available In Minutes. This Information Is Then Passed to the Emergency Organisation Req
When an emergency arises in a particular area of sea, a print-out of AMVER vessels in a specified area is available in minutes. This information is then passed to the emergency organisation requesting it.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 7
AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...
Category: Articles
The Tender Pendonna
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.47 on the morning of the 1st of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that red flares had been seen near the Bull lightvessel. A strong east-south-easterly wind was blowing, and the sea...
An American Mustang
JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.14 in the afternoon the naval authorities at Harwich reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane was down east of Clacton pier. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate...
The S.S. Ardgantock
Yarmouth, and Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 7.1 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1954, the S.S.
Ardgantock, of Greenock, wirelessed that she was listing badly and was in danger of foundering twelve miles west-by-...
An Avenger Aircraft
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 2.23 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary saw an Avenger aircraft, with a crew of four, from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, crash into the sea half a mile south-west...