LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above) Two of a Set of Six Gaelic Coffee Glasses (Or Wine Glasses) Made By Cavan Crystal Ltd Each Glass Carries a Different Decoration: the Rnli House Flag Crest A
(Above) Two of a set of six Gaelic coffee glasses (or wine glasses), made by Cavan Crystal Ltd. Each glass carries a different decoration: the RNLI house flag, crest, an ILB, 44' Waveney lifeboat and two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Life-Boats
NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...
Category: Services
Y L a News
THERE has been a good world-wide response to the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association which, as announced in the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, was launched by Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, at the International...
Category: Articles
Julia
Cox- swain Kelly of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 1 on the 23rd March saw a schooner miss stays and get into a dangerous position near the rocks beneath the lime kilns at Port St. Mary.
A strong southerly breeze was...
Three New Life-Boats Named
ARBROATH H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new Arbroath life-boat The Duke of Montrose at a ceremony held at the life-boat station in Arbroath harbour on the 21st of May, 1958. Provost D. A. Gardner,...
Category: Inaugurations
A Naval Patrol Vessel (2)
SEPTEMBER 1 0TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. A naval patrol vessel had stranded, but the crew declined the aid of the life-boat. - Rewards, £10 5s..
A Cabin Cruiser (1)
West Mersea, Essex. At 4.15 p.m.
on 24th June, ^65, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was drifting down the river Blackwater past Stone.
At 4.20 the IRB launched in a strong gusting to near gale...
Contents
Notes of the Quarter 3 Lifeboat Services 5 XT JX Lifeboat Open Days 1984,Poole 12 487 Forest Row Lifeboat Choir 12 The naming at Cowes of RNLB Sir Max Aitken II 13 Chairman- a Safe— art 1- caPsizing and righting, by James Paffett, RCNC...
Category: Contents
Advent
Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.57 on the morning of the 17th of March, 1957, a message was received from a fisher- man that a vessel was ashore at Great- stone. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 8.25 in a smooth sea. There was a...
Muddy waters
How would the occupants of a yacht survive when it sank within seconds at the mouth of the Thames? Anne Millman finds out
On the overcast but cold morning of 17 February, Thames Coastguard at Waltonon- the-Naze heard an...
Category: Articles