LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ilb Launches on Service During the Months March April and May 1972
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Arran (Lamlash) Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Barrow, Lancashire Baumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blyth,...
Category: Services
Prospect
PORT LOGAN.—A message by telephone was received from the coastguard at Drummore on the 25th January, reporting that a vessel was flying a signal of distress. The wind was blowing a moderate to a strong gale, the sea was heavy, and the...
A Yacht
On passage A YACHT IN DIFFICULTY in gale force winds, 12.4 miles bearing 015°M from Llandudno lifeboat station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Thursday, August 4.
RFA White Rover was...
River Thames
WALMER.—Guns were heard in the direction of the Middle Light Vessel during hazy weather at about 10.15 a.m.
on the 29th June, and shortly afterwards a barque was discerned stranded close to the Light Vessel. The Life-boat...
Alderman A. H. Drinkwater, J.P., of Coventry
By the death on 21st August, at the age of eighty-three, of Alderman A. H.
Drinkwater, three times Mayor of Coventry, an honorary freeman of the city, and a man who devoted himself whole-heartedly to public and philan-...
Category: Obituaries
Endeavour and Easter Morn
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early on the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while the fishing fleet were at sea, and conditions at theharbour became dangerous. At 7.45 the life-boatmen assembled to wait for the boats to...
Fourteenth Rnli National Lottery
THE RNU was lucky to have 'two' wellknown personalities at the draw of the fourteenth national lottery of July 21.
Before an audience of American Branch committee members, representatives of Hilbourne Junior Guild...
Category: Articles
Endeavour, Progress, Easter Morn, Prosperity, Venus, Gallilee, Provider
FEB. 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING BARROW, LANCASHIRE, and MILLOM, CUMBERLAND.
At four in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1942, the naval base asked the Barrow life-boat station to search for an aeroplane which had crashed north of...
Category: Services
Constance Ellen
TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—At 12 noon on the 15th February the Lifeboat Charles Luckonibe was taken out to the assistance of the brigantine Constance Ellen, of Runcorn, bound from Woolwich for Belfast with iron and cement, stranded on the...