LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...
Category: Inaugurations
Racal-Marine
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Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MINEHEAD, SOMERSETSHIRE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Minehead, there being sufficient men available for manning and launching the boat, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLANTRAE, N.B.—On the application of the local residents, a Life-boat station has been established at Ballantrae, a small village on the coast of Ayrshire, where Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three having occurred there, with loss of...
Category: Articles
Provider A, Pilot Me and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th of March, 1955, the local fish- ing boats Provider A, Pilot Me and Lead Us were at sea in a strong north- westerly wind and a heavy swell.
About ten o'clock it was learned...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLACKPOOL.—The boat, which has recently been sent to this station by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIM-BOAT INSTITUTION, was designed by Mr. G. L. WATSON, Con- salting Naval Architect to the Institution, specially to meet the views of the Black- pool...
Category: Articles
Talvez and The Ecuadorian Motor Vessel Bonita
Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was...
Category: Services
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 14th of March, 1956, with Lord Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Civil Servants' Gift
The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...
Category: Donations