LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...
Category: Articles
Juan Ferrer (1)
CLUNG TO WRECKAGE Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.
At 2.58 a.m. on 23rd October, 1963, the coastguard at St. Just was informed by Land's End radio that a Spanish vessel had gone aground near Mount's...
A Boat
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an outboard motor had broken down near the Brake buoy. Her crew of three were trying to row to the...
Indian Irb Crewman
Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.
With the possible exception of Atlantic...
Category: Branches
Meirig Glyn Davies Mbe.
August Meirig Glyn Davies MBE. ex Llandudno lifeboat coxswain. Meirig first joined the crew as second coxswain in 1964, a position he held until 1970. He was an ILB crew member between 1966 and 1985, emergency mechanic between 1970 and 1982....
Category: Obituaries
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APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off...
Frequent Flyer
Southend-on-Sea’s hovercraft crew had a busy day on 23 May.
Their first job, with the local Coastguard team, was to search an area of low water for an unexploded mine. They found it, marked it with a buoy and informed a...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth November, 1937.
Sir GODFRBY BARING, Bt., in the chair:— Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Mr. Gordon Armstrong . . 8,000 0 0 Cunard...
Category: Committee
Concordia
LYDD, KENT.—The David Hulett Lifeboat put off at 4.30 A.M. on the 2nd March to the assistance of the brigantine Concordia, of Guernsey, which had stranded on the sands about half a mile from the boathouse, and was showing signals of distress...