LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Dinghy
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...
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H.M.T. Ben Ardna and H.M.T. Simerson
MAY 12TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 3.10 A . M . the Tynemouth coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress off Souter Point, and the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 3.30 A.M. A fresh N.N.E. wind...
Robert Lindrick
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 5.38 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that the steam trawler Robert Lindrick, of Aberdeen, was ashore on the Isle of Mull. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put out at...
Foreign Governments and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN two instances recently the indomitable courage of the British Life-boatman has been recognised and suitably rewarded by governments of the respective countries to which the distressed vessels belonged.
The first case...
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The Crosby Lightship
MARCH. 8TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHE: SHIRE. At 11.38 A.M. the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that the Crosby Lightship was adrift. A heavy W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain squalls. The No. 1 motor life-boat...
S.S. J. B. Paddon
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 9.40 A.M. a request came from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to land an injured man, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H.F. Bailey was...
The S.S. Bramham (1)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The Steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 had just returned from an exercise on the 18th July when the s.s. Bramham, referred to above, was reported to have stranded on the Cross Sand. She immediately put to sea again, and...
Amulet
ENGINE FAILED, SAIL CARRIED AWAY Walmer, Kent.—At 8.17 on the night of the 9th of September, 1947, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the auxili- ary yacht Amulet needed a tow one mile east of St. Margarets Bay. The motor life-boat Charles...
Life-Boat Exhibitions
LIFE-BOAT models and equipment have been exhibited at the Welsh Industries Fair, in Cardiff, and the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's Empire Week Show in Belfast, and the Institution's exhibition of photographs has been shown at...
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