LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ayrshire Coast, of Liverpool (2)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...
Florya
GROUNDED YACHT THE Eastney, Hampshire, ILB on 18th June, 1972, went to the aid of the yacht Florya and rescued three people.
At 1 p.m. on that day Hayling Island Coastguard reported that a large yacht was standing into...
Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Presents to Mrs V M Johnson
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, presents to Mrs V. M. Johnson, honorary secretary of Bognor Regis branch, her honorary life governorship vellum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1895
Jan. 10.—Voted 11. to two men, with thanks to one of them, for saving the crew of three men from a coastguard boat which was capsized off Shanagau Point, co. Antrim, in a squall on the 8th November.
Also 31. 10s. to seven...
Category: Articles
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
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Teymar (6)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Institution's Storeyard is at Poplar, in a district of London where there is a great deal of poverty, and at Christmas last year it gave a Tea and Entertainment to over 150 children.
It was entirely arranged and...
Category: Articles
Building Up to the Millennium Ii
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings continues his look at the Institution's shore facilities T;• he effects of coastal geology on the costs of operating the lifeboat service may not be immediately apparent, but the relative...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...
Category: Services
Hamilton and Zealot, W. M. J., and the Otter
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—A violent gale was experienced here on the morning of the 14th January, the wind blowing furiously from S.8.W., and the heavy seas lashing themselves into a mass of foam. At 11.45 the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched,...