LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Kart Meyrick was fishing from the end of Porthcawl Pier on 2 February 2002 when a giant wave swept him off the pier and into the sea below. There had been a severe gale blowing for the past 24 hours and enormous waves were completely...
H.M.S. Barcombe
Islay, Hebrides. At 9.40 on the night of the 13th of January, 1958, the the Kilchoman coastguard informed the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Bar- combe was aground on Oronsay. At 10.5 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a slight sea...
French Life-Boats
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, the French life-boat society with headquarters in Paris, no longer has pulling and sailing life-boats in its fleet, as mentioned in the March issue. Its fleet consists of 56 motor life-boats...
Category: Articles
Memories of International Conferences By Patrick Howarth
The first international lifeboat conference was held in London in 1924, the centenary year of the RNLI; the first international lifeboat exhibition is being held at Plymouth this summer to celebrate our 150th...
Category: Articles
Wedding Donations
When Douglas and Pamela Smith, owners of the Stromness Hotel in Stromness. got married in November they decided to hold the reception in their own hotel! Already having a plentiful supply of 'candlewick bedspreads, toasters and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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OCT. 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Early in the morning the assistant harbour master saw distress signals coming from the bay. A strong E.S.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat John and Charles...
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Hastings life-boat returning from service and is reproduced...
Category: Advertisement
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Mr. ROBERT LEES has been elected an HONORARY LIFE-GOVERNOR of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given to the life-boat service as honorary secretary of the Wicklow...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Richmond Queen
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 19th of May, 1955, Lloyd's agent asked if the life-boat would put out to the S.S. Richmond Queen and land four men and the skipper's wife from the S.S. Zor, of...
A Dinghy
Dinghy adrift off Inchcolm AT 1644 on the afternoon of December 8, 1974, Queensferry honorary treasurer, who was deputising for the honorary secretary, was informed by the Coastguard that a man was in difficulty in a small dinghy off...