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Racing Yachts

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— During a regatta on the 23rd of August, 1951, the weather began to get worse.

At 3.15 in the afternoon a yacht cap- sized. At 3.20 other yachts were seen to capsize one mile north-east of the...

Eileen

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

At 9.30 A.M. on the 13th December information was received j that a barge was apparently ashore on the Hook Sands, and the No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched to her assistance. It was blowing a S. by W. gale, the sea was...

Ada

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.50 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ada of Vlaardingen had grounded on Howick Rocks three miles north of Boulmer.

The life...

Two Exhibitions

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

Ax exhibition of life-boats through the ages was opened at Life-boat House, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, by Commodore the Earl Howe, deputy chairman of the Institution, on the 3rd of December, 1954.

The exhibition...

Category: Articles

Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

May Day 1-31 May

Date: Spring 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 627 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2019 (1)

‘ If it wasn’t for the helmet, I wouldn’t be here’

It’s easy to take the things that protect us for granted. We get used to having our day-to-day safety nets there
should we ever need them. But our volunteers...

Category: Articles

Fortuna

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

Shortly after five o'clock on the evening of the 24th December, a schooner anchored near to the Clipera Rooks, and a few minutes afterwards signals of distress were made by those on board. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...

Naming Ceremonies In England

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

FOUR other naming ceremonies were held in England, in June and July, 1950, at Seaham, Clovelly, Hastings, and Teesmouth.

Seaham The new Seaham life-boat lias been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Elizabeth Elmy, of...

Category: Inaugurations

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

A LETTER written to the firm of Messrs.

Ransomes and Sims, of Orwell Works, Ipswich, and signed by seven members of the staff " on behalf of the Clerks, Foremen and Workmen of this estab- lishment " was published...

Category: Articles

While St.Mary's New Arun Was at Poole Before Sailing

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

While St Mary's new Arun was at Poole before sailing for the Scilly Islands she was visited by her donor, Mrs Esme Edgar, who in a small private ceremony named the lifeboat Robert Edgar. Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge and some of his crew... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs