LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
East Division Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going...
Category: Services
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 4th March, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letter from the Local Committee at...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
CREW TRAPPED AND INJURED BY PIER SUPPORT Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
- Tyne class Mary The little town of Portpatrick, situated on the south western edge of Scotland, provided a picturesque setting for the naming ceremony of its new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat Mary Irene Millar on Friday, 19 May...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat Regulations January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
Night Danger Signals
WHEN it is remembered how large an amount of property, and "what numberless human lives have been sacrificed by the loss of vessels during the night, and more espe- cially on the outlying sandbanks and rocks around out own. coasts, it...
Category: Articles
November (1)
PORTMAGEE, Co. KERRY. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1944, the 35-feet motor fishing boat Naomh Moibhi, of Dingle, was at anchor at Portmagee, sheltering from the weather. A west-north-west gale was blowing, with high seas. The Valentia...
Category: Services
Naming and Dedication: St.Mary's Scilly Islands Shoreham Harbour and Fishguard
Naming and Dedication AT ST MARY'S, ISLES OF SCILLY, SHOREHAM HARBOUR AND FISHGUARD St Mary's, Isles of Scilly THE ISLES OF scii.i.v's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, donated by Mrs Esme Edgar and her son, Mr Anthony Edgar, was...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
No. 7 Life-boat Area DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported...
Category: Services
Emilie
PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — On the 7th April, a strong gale from N.W. was experienced, accompanied by a heavy sea, and by rain squalls at intervals. At about 3.50 P.M., information having been received by means of the telephone, that a vessel was...