LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
Portuguese Life-Boat Disaster
THREE members of the crew of one of the Portuguese life-boats lost their lives early in November, 1960, after they had helped fourteen local fishing boats to safety at Vianna in Northern Portugal.
The life-boat capsized...
Category: Articles
Three Fishing Boats
On the 24th No- vember three fishing-boats were seen making for the harbour. The weather at the time was very stormy and a heavy sea was running on the Bar, through which it was feared they could not pass safely. The Albert Victor life-boat...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part X—Engines and Superstructure Fitted: Steering System
A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
The engines are twin...
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Melfort
Ketch founders RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station at 0846 on Sunday May 17, 1981. that a yacht was aground at Derby Haven, east of Castletown; she was on the seaward side of the breakwater and...
Nameless of Cork & Schooner Emil Ann of Carnarvon
On the 22nd August, the brigantine Nameless, of Cork,and the schooner Emily Ann, of Carnarvon, were observed in distress off Tenby during a strong gale of wind. The Florence...
Resolute
On the 4th May the Lighthouse keeper reported that a small vessel was ashore about half a mile to the east of Shoreham Harbour, and making signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat William Bestell were assembled and...
A Helicopter
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.7 on the even- ing of the llth October, 1961, the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis had just completed an exercise with a Royal Air Force helicopter off Ramsgate. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea...
Penton
On the evening of the 20th April the coxswain received a message from the pier head that flares were burning in the Swatch- way, and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) put out at 10.52 P.M. A moderate S.W. wind was...
A Yacht and a Sailing Dinghy
LAUNCH TO CAPSIZED DINGHY Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th August, 1962, the honorary secretary noticed a yacht and a sailing dinghy being blown to the north of the harbour in Berwick...