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District Conferences

Date: February 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 305

Meeting of Workers from North and Mid-Wales.

A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers from Branches and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds in North and Mid-Wales was held at Llandudno on the 22nd October, 1930. Delegates from ten...

Category: Meetings

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Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

MAY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 8.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over the cliffs near Berry Head and lay on a ledge of rock close to the water’s edge. At 8.40 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched, taking...

A Good Example

Date: July 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 37

THE following interesting communication has been transmitted to the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and is a gratifying evidence of the social kindness of heart that is so frequently found among our British workmen: — " Orwell Works,...

Category: Correspondence

Fishing Boats

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

SEVENTEEN BOATS ESCORTED OVER BAR Arbroath, Angus. During the morning of the 1st November, 1962, a southerly gale sprang up, causing very rough seas at the harbour bar. The Arbroath fishing fleet was at sea, and as the weather was...

St. Nicholas

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Dunbar, East Lothian. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Beggars Scalp off Seacliff coastguard look-out, but was in no apparent danger. Twenty...

Your shout

Date: Summer 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 600 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2012

Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...

Category: Articles

Sea Spray

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Blackpool, Lancashire.—At about 9.50 P.M. on the 30th July, 1938, when the wind was freshening and the sea getting up, a cabin cruiser was seen to the south of the Central Pier. As she was approaching a lee shore, she was kept under...

Chanticleer

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

GORLESTON.—The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th May and proceeded to the assistance of the steam trawler Chanticleer, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the South Scroby Sand, on which a rough sea was...

Southend Life-Boat With the Blotto In Tow

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

(see page 137). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The New Barrow-In-Furness Life-Boat Herbert Leigh

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

(See page 457). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs