LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Launch
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 5.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a small boat was reported in difficulties near the reef. At 5.39 the life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched in a light easterly breeze and a moderate...
Sail
Sail
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
American best-selling author James Patterson has teamed up for the second time with fellow countryman and writer...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 16th May, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, Bt., C.B., D.S.O., R.N.V.R., a member of the committee of management.
Received...
Category: Committee
The Southern Africa Branch
LAST year the Institution received from its Southern Africa Branch £1,500.
Since the branch was established at a meeting in Cape Town in February, 1942, it has contributed £33,000. The first of three motor...
Category: Branches
New lifeboat station to be trialled
A new crew of RNLI volunteers are preparing to open a lifeboat station in south west Cork. An inshore lifeboat station should be up and running at Union Hall, Keelbeg, from mid 2014 for a 2-year trial period. The volunteers will operate an...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (1)
MAY 22ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A small rowing boat with two boys on board was seen by the coastguard to be in difficulties.
They had broken one of their oars and a strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Birds Eye Foods Ltd. Gave the R.N.L.I, This 37-Foot Oakley Which Bears the Company's Name—Birds Eye.
Birds Eye Foods Ltd. gave the R.N.L.I, this 37-foot Oakley which bears the company's name—Birds Eye.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ada
LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 22nd October, during rough weather, the Looe Life-boat was launched and proceeded through a heavy ground sea to a small fishing-boat named the Ada, of Devonport, which had lost her foresail, jib, and...
International Life-Boat Conference
THE eighth International Life-boat Conference took place in Bremen from the 23rd to the 25th of June, 1959. The hosts were the German life-boat society, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger.
Delegates from...
Category: Meetings
Goeland
While a moderate breeze was blowing from S.W., accompanied by a smooth sea and fine weather, on the 1st August, a message by wireless telegraphy was received about 5 P.M., stating that a steam trawler was stranded at Carmel Point. The...