LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sibiria
A Magnificent Group of Services.
19th~21st November, 1916.
SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Conferences
North-Eastern and South-Western Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Branches in the North-Eastern District was held at Harrogate on the 25th October, 1929.
Many of the delegates attended a reception given by the...
Category: Meetings
Launches
a ABERDEEN ON-124B(l7-24):Aug13, Aug 19 D-53&Aug9 ABERDOVEY B-758:Aug4,AugZ4.Aug26 ABERSOCH 8-582: Aug 3, Aug 26, Aug 29 ABERYSTWYTH B-704: Aug 4. Aug 1 7(x2), Aug 20{x2). Aug 22, Aug 24. Aug 30 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1228 (14-24): Aug 14, Aug...
Category: Services
Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
Category: Articles
An All-Night Service at Selsey
ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...
Category: Services
A Canoe (1)
the morn- ing of the 14th September a young visitor to Saundersfoot put out in a canoe. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. About half a mile off shore the canoe capsized, and was blown another mile out to sea with the boy...
Membership News
It was formally announced at the AGM in May that subscription rates for adult membership schemes are to increase from 1 September this year. Neil Morris (left), Membership Marketing Manager, explains the reasons for the increases, just how...
Category: Articles
Latvian Award to Portaskaig
ON the night of 26th October, 1936, the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, was caught in a sudden very severe storm near Jura Sound on the west coast of Scotland. The weather was very thick, with rain showers, and the sea was very...
Category: Awards
Income and Expenditure for 1932
Life-boats :—• EXPENDITURE.
s. d. £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberystwyth, Aldeburgh, Anstruther, Arbroath, Barra Island, Donaghadee,...
Category: Accounts