LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1937.
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Category: Accounts
March (1)
CARRADALE, ARGYLLSHIRE. At eleven in the morning of the 9th of December, 1943, the two motor fishing boats Betty and Irene, which work together, were at anchor in Carradale Bay, when their crews saw an aeroplane come down on the sea. A...
Category: Services
Awards to Honorary Workers
Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION, INSCRIBED ON VELLUM, has been awarded to the following :— Mr. J. LEWIS, on his retirement, after 31J years as honorary secretary of the Holy- head branch....
Category: Awards
Neptunas, of Soon, Norway
Excellent ser- vice was performed by the Life-boat on this station on. the 16th August. About five o'clock on the rooming of that day, during a very heavy gale, with a rough sea, the barque Neptunus, of Soon, Norway, drove ashore in...
A Catamaran (1)
Dover, Kent. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with a broken mast was trying to reach shore under a temporary sail in Wear Bay two miles east of...
A Longshore Boat and a Motor Boat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a party of naturalists had gone to Scroby Sands in a longshore boat and a small motor boat in the...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. — The Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief men to the Blackwater Lightvessel and the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse as the Commissioners' boats were not available. At 12.30 on the...
Helen M.
On a lee shore INFORMATION from Ministry of Defence Police that a catamaran, Helen M, was anchored in a dangerous position off Pendine was received by Tenby Coastguard at 2110 on Wednesday October 7, 1981. Two of the catamaran's crew...
Happy Wanderer
CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Barrow, Lancashire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, the Walney lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near the Bar buoy. There was a light easterly breeze...
Fishing Boats (3)
DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which made the harbour entrance dangerous for the returning...