LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A R.A.F. Helicopter (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk - At 8 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, it was learned that a R.A.F. helicopter had crashed about half a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHEND, CANTYRE, N.B. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment, under the management of the Campbeltown Local Committee, at the south end of Cantyre, near Dunaverty Castle, where JANUARY 1, 1870.] THE...
Category: Articles
Finnkraft
AID FOR FINNS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At i.io p.m. on ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fimkraft of Helsinki, then five miles north-west of Bardsey Island, had an injured man on...
House Style
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager, Howard Richings, looks at the way that lifeboat houses have changed to reflect the changing demands made upon them In the early years RNLI boathouses were very basic.
Resources were scarce...
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New Life-Boats
ST. ANNE'S-ON-THE-SEA, LANCASHIRE.— The No. 1 Life-boat which has done duty at St. Anne's since 1886 has been re- placed by a new boat of the Liverpoo1 type, 36 feet long by 9 feet wide, fitted with two water-ballast tanks, and row-...
Category: Inaugurations
Cheerful
JANUARY 20TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 11.43 A.M. a report was received from the police, through the coastguard, that a fishing boat was in need of help about two miles north of the harbour, and the motor life-boat Lily Glen,...
Pigganin
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.13 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white yacht was in difficulties with a broken rudder 15 miles off Anvil point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 11.32 in a...
Mabel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, the owner of the yacht Mabel, of Dun Laoghaire, told the coxswain that he had tried to take the yacht out of the harbour, but that she had broken down and...
Unitas
DUTCH VESSEL TOWED OFF ROCKS IN GALE Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th December, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Unitas of Groningen was in difficulties at Kincasslagh Bay. She had...
Dawn Wind
Selsey, Sussex. At 8.49 on the even- ing of the llth of June, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress one mile south-by-west of Selsey Bill. At 8.57 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched, two...