LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1957, the coxswain was told by telephone that a girl bather was being carried out to sea on the ebb tide at the estuary of the Red Wharf Bay River. Fifteen minutes later the...

THE new Aberdeen life-boat Hilton Briggs, of the 52-feet Barnett (Strom- ness) type, which left the building yard at Cowes on the 17th of August of last year, broke her journey by sea to her station, to travel up the River Trent from Hull...

THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS submitted to the Institution's governors at the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 15 showed that Shoreline had contributed £934,400 to the RNLI's funds in 1983, an increase of more than £165,000. At...

PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—At about 6 A.M., on the 23rd March, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Charlotte, waa informed that a vessel was firing signals of distress, having stranded on the Manacles rocks. A light wind wag then blowing from N.E.,...

Sheringham, Norfolk. — About 9 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd of April, 1949, local fishing boats were overtaken by bad weather. Some reached the shore with difficulty.

Three were still at sea, and the life- boat...

FEBRUARY 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A request for the help of the life-boat was received from a.

medical officer at Pennan. He had a woman patient whom he wanted to send at once to the Fraserburgh hospital, but she...

THE Royal Humane Society has pre- sented its Testimonial on Parchment and Resuscitation Certificate to Robert Charles Davis, the bowman of the Cromer life-boat, and its Resuscitation Certificate to Coxswain Henry Thomas Davis for the rescue...