LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thomas and Edwin
BROADSTAIRS.—Messages by telephone were received on the morning of the 4th August, intimating that the services of the Life-boat were required. A whole gale was then blowing from N.W., there was a heavy sea and rain was falling at intervals....
Hull Trader
On the afternoon of the 21st October the -coast- guard reported a canoe with one man on board in distress four miles S.S.E. of the pier. A strong south breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, when the motor life-boat Greater London...
Ann Mitchell, of Newquay
On the 16th March it was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea, when the Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Newquay, came into the bay in a distressed state, and after a narrow es- cape of being blown on the rocks, where...
News
A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...
Category: Articles
Marine Print
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Gear
1. Anchor and cable ; anchor for a 30-feet boat, not less than, 75 Ibs. weight; cable 60 fathoms of 3 -inch rope.
The anchor and cable to be secured to the floor of the boat amidships.
2. A grapnel 25 Ibs....
Category: Articles
Fairlie and Jane
On the 27th September, at 3.30 A.M., signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Fairlie and Jane, of Beaumaris, bound from Dublin from Llanaelhaiarn in ballast, during a strong gale from the W.S.W., the Thomas Fielden Lifeboat put...
Briar
At 6.55 P.M. on the 17th April the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that a motor boat was on fire off Rosehearty, and that the crew appeared to be taking to their small boat. The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 7 P.M., in...
Life-Boats Given By Corporate Bodies: A Correction
IN the October issue of The Life-boat was an article with this heading, and among the corporate bodies mentioned was Lloyd's, donor of a life-boat which bears its name.
It .should have been said that Lloyd's not...
Category: Donations
Annual General Meeting. Life-Boatmen Were Honoured
Life-Boatmen Were Honoured During 1964 rescue craft of the Royal National Life-boat Institution received more service calls than in any year since the foundation of the Institution in 1824. This was reported by Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham...
Category: Meetings