LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Service to Mi Amigo:
Service to Mi Amigo: On the evening of March 19, 1980. the radio ship Mi Amigo was reported to be dragging anchor in the vicinity of NW Long Sand Beacon. Sheerness lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney1 Helen Turnbull, under the command of Coxswain...
Category: Services
A Sailing Club Rescue Boat
Rescuers rescued Dun Laoghaire's D class inflatable was involved in a service at the very limits for the class of lifeboat when she went to the aid of a capsized safety boat on 26 May 1993.
The inflatable had been on...
Mountblairy, of Plymouth
Rosslare Harbour (Co. Wexford).
On the 20th October, the schooner Mountblairy, of Plymouth, was driven ashore about five miles from Rosslare Harbour in a whole gale, with a very heavy sea running. She lay surrounded by...
Henrietta
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Lucie Antoinette, of Nantes
On tho morning of the 16th March, during a strong gale from the E.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, tho schooner Lucie Antoinette, of Nantes, went on the Good- win Sands. Tho Life-boat Bradford and steamer Vulcan proceeded out to her, and the...
Letter
Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...
Category: Correspondence
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Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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Kasam
THE LIFEBOAT B class Atlantic 75 lifeboat B-742 Douglas Paley Funding: A gift from Mrs Evelyn Anne Paley, in memory of her late husband Air Commodore Douglas Paley THE CREW Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Members Andrew Hallet and Martin Davis...
South-Eastern District Conference
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...
Category: Committee
Naming Ceremonies
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, named two new life-boats in 1954. These life- boats, The Duchess of Kent and Edian Courtauld, are now on service at Fraserburgh and at Walton and Frinton.
Ten new...
Category: Inaugurations