LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gruelling Shift
Mallaig lifeboat crew endured a 10-hour shout in horrendous conditions to save the 1,300-tonne coaster Red Duchess off the Isle of Rum, a small island of the Inner Hebrides, on 2 November.
Coxswain Michael Ian Currie says:...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
Edinburgh and R. M. Ballantyne, 30 feet long, 7 feet wide, 10 oars.
THE Life-boat Edinburgh and R. M, Ballantyne was placed on this station in 1866.
Port Logan is a small bay in Wigtonshire, on the...
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Meetings of Committee
6th May. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Institution, held on the 22nd April; also of the previous monthly Meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward...
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Lord Mottistone's Wireless Appeal
ON March llth, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
(Major-General Seely), coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight,...
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A Life-Boat Crew at Stockport
THIS year marks the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the formation of the Stock- port crew of life-boat auxiliaries. In 1936 three young men were asked to collect on Stockport life-boat day. The following year they were asked again and with a...
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Provider (3)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
Solent Swan and Oriana
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 7.10 in the morning of the 9th of .January, 1952, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles south-south-west of Smalls, but that a steamer was standing by her.
Then...
Lifeboat—In Danger's Hour'
THE RNLI'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES contain thousands of lifeboat pictures which not only document the progress in boats and equipment but also provide an insight to changing social conditions.
The selection on these pages...
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Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—At about 10 A.M., on the 28th of January, five fishing cobles, which had left the harbour about six hours previously, were observed to be returning, the sea having risen considerably. As crossing the bar was, under the circumstances,...
The Austrian Schooner Nicolo
On the night of the 31st March, during a gale of wind from the N.W., the Princess of Wales life-boat went off in reply to a signal from the Austrian schooner Nicolo, which had stranded near Penial, Anglesea, to the assistance of some boatmen...