LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
C.A.V. Ltd
Chosen for reliability LUCAS The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
Lucas and CAV supply a full range of...
Category: Advertisement
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
AUG. 8TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.
A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers’ Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea,...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1890-91
THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago. Fourth Annual Report
IT is now four years since the establishment of this Institution ; and the Committee, in making their Fourth Annual Report, beg leave to state, that they have continued to pursue the measures which they have deemed best calculated to effect...
Category: Annual Reports
Pembrokeshire Lass
SOUTHPORT.—The Life-boat Eliza Fernley launched at 5 A.M. on the 28th May, during a gale, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Pembrokeshire Lass, of Milford, which vessel had gone ashore during the night, on the Teds Bank....
"Man the Life-Boat!" An Acrostic. By a Yorkshire Clergyman
The Royal National Life-boat Institution Rescues Numberless Lives; Incites Really Noble, Laudable Inquiries; Reckons Necessary Lofty Ideas; Rewards News; Laments Indolence; Relieves Nautical Labourers Immediately;...
Category: Poetry
Eventide (2)
Newbiggin, Blyth, Amble and Tynemouth, Northumberland - On 5th August, 1966, life-boats from these stations carried out a search for the missing fishing coble Eventide whose crew of three - a father and two sons - were all at some time...
Woollen Comforts.
The Institution has received, as voluntary gifts, a great number of knitted woollen comforts of all kinds for its crews. It was thus possible to accumulate a large reserve of such comforts at Headquarters, and supplies have been sent to the...
Category: Articles
General Summary of 1867
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 35 vessels saved by them . . . . . . . .
Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c. . . . .
Amount of Pecuniary Rewards for saving Life during the...
Category: Annual Reports
Mr Bill Shanks
NOVEMBER 1989: Mr Bill Shanks, founder member of Silloth branch in 1960 and souvenir secretary from 1969 to 1985. He was awarded a silver badge in 1984..
Category: Obituaries