LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—At about 10 A.H., on the 25th June, a rowing boat, which had gone out early in the morning to gather mussels in the Tees, attempted to make for Redcar. Her crew of a man and two boys were in danger as the wind had...
Lord Ammon
Lord Ammon died on the 2nd of April, 1960, at the age of 86. Among the many important posts in public life which he held were those of Chairman of the London County Council and of the National Dock Labour Board. He was a deputy speaker in...
Category: Obituaries
RNLI News
Out in the open around the country! Once again the RNLI will be opening its facilities to visitors this year, enabling them to gain a firsthand impression of how the Institution works and the quality of the boats and...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
TENBY H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Tenby life-boat Henri) Comber Brown at Tenby on the 2nd of June, 1956, and later went afloat in the life-boat. The life-boat has been built out of legacies from...
Category: Inaugurations
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. —During the afternoon of Whit Sunday, the 16th of May, 1948, a yacht could he seen on Black Scar Bank apparently in diffi- culties. She made no distress signals, but at 5.15 in the evening, the coast- guard reported...
Lady's Page
SCABBOBOUGH. — The fishing smack Lady's Page, of Scarborough, while running for the harbour during a strong S.S.E. wind and a very heavy, sea at 1 A.M.
on the 22nd of February, grounded outside the outer pier. A flare...
Fluid Compasses
ITS our last January Number we gave a short account and illustration of the Boat's Fluid Compass, adopted by this Institution, and in this Number we insert an interesting paper on the " Mariner's Compass," with which we...
Category: Articles
Bosphorus
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 6.30 in the evening of the 20th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Bosphorus, of Oslo, of 2,111 tons, bound for Hull from Palestine, with a cargo of oranges and thirty-seven on board,...
1992 Volvo Winners
The Lady Provost of Edinburgh, Mrs A. Irons, drew the winning ticket from nearly a quarter of a million to choose the winner of the Vovo in the Scottish region.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Volvo
THE VOLVO RANGE EXCLUSIVE SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS OF THE RYA AS AN RYA MEMBER YOU ARE ENTITLED TO EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS ON A NEW VOLVO SUPPLIED FROM HR OWEN. IN ADDITION TO THESE PRIVILEGED TERMS WE WILL ORGANISE A TEST DRIVE FOR YOU AT YOUR...
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