LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Muir Ara
Galway Bay - At 7.30 p.m. on 25th March, 1966, the honorary secretary received a report that distress flares had been seen about a mile south east of the North Aran light. At 8.5 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched.
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A Sailboard
Sailboard out in force 8 MICHAEL TIGHE, a crew member of Sunderland's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, was near the lifeboathouse onthe afternoon of Sunday November 4, 1984, when he was told that a board sailor was in trouble near...
Seton Queen
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 6.39 p.m.
on 22nd March, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Seton Queen was reported to be running short of fuel. She had been fishing between Barr Rock and May Island and was overdue. This had been...
Life-Boat Broadcasting. Appeals In Ireland and Wales
DURING the summer four Life-boat appeals have been broadcast in Ireland and Wales. On 30th May, just before Life-boat Day was held in Belfast, Sir Frederick Moneypenny, C.V.O., C.B.E., the City Chamberlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...
Category: Donations
People and Places
New Year's Honours Her Majesty The Queen has honoured the following for their services to the RNLI in this year's New Year Honours list: On Station The following lifeboats have taken up duty: ALL-WEATHER Blyth - Trent class 14-06 (ON...
Category: Articles
Saga
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the 11th October the Parsee Life-boat was launched to the aid of the barque Saga, of Carlshamn, Sweden, which had stranded on the Hasborough Sand during a strong N.E. wind and heavy sea. She had previously grounded on...
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF DRIFTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.18 on the morning of the 21st September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a member of the crew of the drifter Tea Rose of Fraserburgh was thought to have...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Vii—Building Up
THE VAST OPEN SPACES of the hull interior gradually disappear as work continues at William Osborne's yard on the internal structure of the 37' 6" Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
In the...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
IN the Report of the General Superin- tendent of the Life-saving Service, it is stated that there were at the close of the last flscal year 194 stations, 149 being on the Atlantic, 37 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...
Category: Articles
Belinda
The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched at 3 A.M. on the 20th September to the assistance of the fishing dandy Belinda,, of Great Yarmouth, which had grounded about 600 yards from the North Pier Head in a moderate gale from the S.E. and a...