LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inaugural Ceremony of the Aberystwyth Motor Life-Boat
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat was held at Aberystwyth on 20th April, in the presence of a large audience. The Earl of Lisburne, Lord- Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, the Bishop of St. David's and the Mayor and Mayoress...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th January, 1897.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat People
AFTER THE SERVICE on December 1 of St Peter Port lifeboat to Natali, which transports Guernsey shellfish to Santander, the vessel's owners, Mariscos Del Cantabrico, entertained all members of the station's crew and their wives,...
Category: Articles
Rescue Mania
Beautiful clear blue skies were the backdrop for an international rescue event, Rescue Mania 1996. Largely organised by members of the Netherlands Reddingsbrigade and local volunteers, and involving some two years of planning and a week of...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Rough ride in race A SMALL BOAT was sighted off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, on September 10, 1972, with engine broken down and crew waving. This led to the Bridlington ILB being sent as low water on a spring tide at Flamborough prevented...
Heroines
Recently, people of all ages remembered the bravery of a lifesaver who battled fierce seas in a little rowing boat to carry out a rescue 175 years ago. This was no archetypal Victorian coxswain, but a lighthousekeeper’s...
Category: Articles
Increase of British Shipping
THOSE who are old enough to remember the repeal of the navigation laws describe the state of feeling that prevailed among the shipowning class when the measure was carried safely through Parliament as one of absolute panic. Nothing but the...
Category: Articles
M.V. Pass of Dirriemore
Small tanker AT 2135 ON Friday January 9 Hartland Coastguard asked Clovelly lifeboat to stand by ready to launch to go to the help of a small tanker, MV Pass of Dirriemore, laden with chemicals. She was disabled with mechanical failure...
The Naming at Cowes of Rnlb Sir Max Aitken Ii
ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 STORNOWAY'S NEW 52FT ARUN LIFEBOAT WHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA named the new Stornoway lifeboat on Thursday February 23 it was a doubly historic occasion for, almost 30 years before, her mother the Duchess of Kent,...
Category: Inaugurations
From the heart
In 2003 Chantal Carr weighed 20 stone. Just 4 years later she’d lost half her body weight, and went on to attempt to swim the Channel in aid of the RNLI
It took some straight talking from her...
Category: Articles