LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weston-Super-Mare-D Class
Weston-Super-Mare's new D class lifeboat is dedicated at a ceremony held at the station on 14 October 1989. The boat was largely funded from the proceeds of a Boto-X organised by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust.
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Category: Photographs
Solva Mystery Solved
This photograph, of what was obviously at one time an RNLI station, was taken by me last year at the little port of Solva in Pembrokeshire.
Would any readers know the history of this station? Mr PA Hindley Llanyblodwel... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Increased Retaining Fees for Coxswains and Others
IN the August issue of The Life-Boat it was announced that the Committee of Management had decided, as from April, 1920, to give a further increase of 25 per cent, in the rewards paid to Coxswains and crews for going afloat to save life....
Category: Articles
An Inflatable Boarding Craft from HMS Lindisfarne
Vital illumination JUST AFTER 1900 on the evening of Wednesday February 12, 1986, Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat station's deputy launching authority was telephoned by Ramsey coastguard. An accident had happened close to Douglas...
The Met Office
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Category: Advertisement
In This Issue
In this issue News All the latest from and about the lifeboat service Letters 2 8 Feature Come fly with me 10 The Lifeboat takes a closer look at the RNLI hovercraft - the latest addition to the fleet Lifeboats in action Including award...
Category: Contents
The S.S. Villalegre
During a heavy snowstorm and very cold weather on the 26th February the same Life-boat was launched to the help of a vessel ashore about half a mile south of Houghton Steel. She was the s.s.
Villalegre of Aviles, a steamer...
Dacca Navigator
Tuesday, 6 September started off as a normal day in the office at Poole, but by mid morning this had all changed after a call from the director of the RNLI.
I was to liaise with the British Red Cross Society (BRCS), he said...
Category: Articles
Francoise Delille and the U.S. Motor Vessel American Builder (1)
Holyhead, Anglesey and Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6 a.m. on 20th December, 1963, the coastguard informed the Porthdinllaen honorary secretary thata French fishingvesselwas leaking badly thirty miles west of Bardsey...
Spanker
POBTMADOC, NOETH WALES.—At about 11.30 P.M., on the 6th of February, the Life-boat John Ashbury was launched, signals having been seen in the bay, during a strong S.S.W. wind and a heavy sea. She went in the direction of the light, which at...