LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Invermore, of Dublin (4)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Life-Preservers on Board Passenger-Ships
"WE have in different parts of this Journal pointed out the advisability that we believe exists for providing on board all vessels, and especially on board passenger-ships, some provision for decreasing the risk of life to those on...
Category: Correspondence
Obituary
THE Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution records with regret the deaths of the following coxswains in the past year: Richard Henry Hayes of Poole.
Owen Jones of Porthdinllaen.
Isaac Jarvis of Hope...
Category: Obituaries
Virginia
Ilfracombe, Devon.—About half past four on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1950, a small boat was seen by a member of the life-boat crew making distress signals north-east of Ilfracombe. This was confirmed by the coastguard. At 5.15...
H.M. Submarine Thetis
JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface. On the following morning four survivors escaped by...
Farthings
As a result of the statement in the Institution's appeals in 1933 that the £250,000 a year which it needed was equivalent to five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles, not only has it received a good many in-...
Category: Donations
A Dinghy (3)
JULY 27TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At 5.15 in the afternoon signals of distress were seen from Benllech and at 5.30 the motor life-boat G.W. was launched. The sea was rough, with a strong south-westerly wind blowing. The...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 26 May 1993 show that so tar during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 661 times (an average of more than 4 launches a day) 134 lives have been saved (an average of nearly one a day)...
Category: Articles
Venscapen and Fox
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 20th November, whilst one of the most violent storms that has visited this coast for many years past was raging, the hull of a vessel was seen off Aldeburgh at about 6.30 A.M.
she appeared to be...
Offshore Lifeboat Service December 1979 January and February 1980
February, 1980 Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 25 Amble, Northumberland January 25 Anstruther, Fife January 31 Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 17, 18, 28, 29 and January 25 Barrow, Cumbria January 13 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan February 17...
Category: Services