LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Relief One Station the Naming of Three Lifeboats In September I980
Relief Waveney LIFEBOATS OF THE RELIEF FLEET are vitally important and can be busier than station lifeboats, but as they have no permanent station their naming ceremonies can take place inland. In 1966 the RNLI's first 70ft lifeboat,...
Category: Inaugurations
Ceremonies
The weather forecast promised heavy rain and strong winds - and how accurate it was! The guests assembled at the naming ceremony of the Trent class lifeboat Esme Anderson at Ramsgate on 25 October 1994 braced themselves for all that the...
Category: Inaugurations
July
Launches 17. Lives rescued 7.
JULY 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At 5.30 A.M. the coastwatchers reported that a small boat was in distress about five miles S.E. of Oyster haven, and the motor life-boat City of...
Category: Services
Centenary of the Padstow Station
THE Life-boat Station at Padstow has celebrated its Centenary this year.
The first mention of it in the records of the Institution appears under the date, 24th January, 1827, when it was decided to make a grant of £10...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1956 80,036 Notes of the Quarter SIR GODFREY BARIXG, who recently announced his...
Category: Articles
Ruth of London
On the 17th Octo- ber, the brig Ruth, of London, went ashore on Saunton Sands during squally weather.
The George and Catherine life-boat put off and rescued the crew of 9 men. The cap- tain of the vessel communicated to the...
Laura
About 1 A.M.
oil the 9th September, a telephone message was received from the Shipwash Light-vessel, stating that the brigantine Laura, of Whitstable, had been in collision with the Light-vessel, and was then drifting...
Mouse
On the i llth February, at 3.40 P.M., the Coast- guard reported that signals of distress had been hoisted on the ketch Mouse, of Cardigan, which had been lying at anchor off Dinas Head. It transpired that the inset of the current caused the...
Trebiskin
At 4 P.M.
on 7th November, during a whole N.W.
gale and rough sea, it was reported to the chief engineer of the steam Life-boat that a boat belonging to the ketch TrebisMn, of Padstow, with one man in her,...
A Small Boat (1)
At 6 P.M. on the 4th January a message was received from the Postmaster of Marloes, through the Coastguard, that a small boat was drifting in St. Bride's Bay. The occupants of the boat were the owner of Skomer Island and another man, who...