LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rongorge
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1953, it was reported that the yacht Rongorge, which had anchored off Gallows Point with a crew of four, was dragging, and at 8.45 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...
Septimus
QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND. — Telegrams were received on the 12th March, stating that a vessel was ashore at Boche's Point, and that the Life-boat was required, other boats being unable to reach her on account of the heavy sea. The Quiver No. 3...
Books
• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
Category: Services
The Barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann
Appledore, Devon.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann, of Barnstaple, which each had a crew of two, had got into difficulties off Crow Point while collecting...
May
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 9.35 a.m.
on 14th August, 1969, the honorary secretary reported that red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of Nave island. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley...
Sylvia
Longhope, Orkneys. — Early on the morning of the 31st of January, 1957, the fishing yawl Sylvia, of Kirkwall, put out for lobster fishing. Before she was due to return a strong gale blew up, and as it was known that it would be extremely...
Lucy, of Antwep
On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could...
Notes of the Quarter
WHEN, ON MARCH 27, HRH The Duke of Kent attended the first meeting of the Committee of Management to be held in the RNLI's new London premises, it was the first time that a President of the Institution had addressed such a...
Category: Articles
With the Help of Post Office Telephone
With the help of Post Office Telephone engineers and landowners, some thousands of metres of underground cable have been laid to ins/al an emergency telephone on the popular but isolated Cocklawburn Beach, two miles south of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs