LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Barque Kaskelot (1)
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...
New Members of Committee of Management
ME. PHILLIP COLVILLE M.B.E., Mr. E.
M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...
Category: Committee
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Galway Bay.—At 2.30 in the morn- ing of the 18th of August, 1949, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take to the mainland a boy who was on holiday in Kilronan, had fallen ill, and must be operated on immediately. No other boat was...
Arbroath Guild
The biennial Caledonian market is a highlight in Arbroath guild's calendar.
Opening at 10.30 on the first Wednesday in August, with a queue forming at 9 am, members of the local 'Old Men's Club' take a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Howard Knight
MR. HOWARD PRIMROSE KNIGHT, who died on the 23rd of November, 1956, served in the Ramsgate life-boat for more than twenty-three years. He was coxswain from 1935 to 1946, and for his services in helping to bring off some 2,800 men from the...
Category: Obituaries
Rfd-Gq Ltd
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RIMLI for inshore rescue work.
Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in...
Category: Advertisement
Turkestan
PORTMADOC.—During the forenoon of the 18th February the ship Turkestan, of Liverpool, bound to that port from New York, got ashore near the bar at the entrance to this harbour. It was blowing fresh at S.S.W., with too heavy a sea to admit of...
Scotia (1)
HOLY ISLAND AND BOULMER. — The Holy Island No. 1 Life-boat Grace Darling was launched at 2.20 P.M., on the 6th March, in a rough sea, the wind blowinga strong gale from N.W., in response to signals of distress shown by the schooner Scotia,...
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North Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.53 on the evening of the 30th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed by the local Trinity House depot that a man had been taken ill in the Longstone lighthouse. As the sea was too rough...
Fishing Boats (1)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 10.10 on the morning of the 15th of February, 1951, several local fishing boats were seen in difficulties making for North Sun- derland harbour in a heavy swell and a light easterly...