LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Landing Craft
OUT OF PETROL Padstow, Cornwall.—At 9.55 in the evening of the 29th of March, 1947, the Trevose Head coastguard reported that a vessel was firing rockets two miles to the north-east of him. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing and the...
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
May, 1929.
No meeting of the Committee of Management was held in May owing to the General Election.
Thursday, 20th June, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st April to the 30th Sept. 1877
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—After a heavy which had been blowing for some days, temporary fine weather induced several fish- ing-boats to go to sea on the 5th April. Soon afterwards heavy ground seas set in, and fishing-boats from Eyemouth and several...
Category: Services
The Duke of Edinburgh Merchant Seamen
WE notice with pleasure that growing interest by public men in the concerns of the seamen of the country, which is always one of the signs indicative of the importance of any particular matter be-ginning to be realised by the nation at large...
Category: Articles
The Naming Ceremony of the Sisters Memorial Llandudno's First Lifeboat (1861-67)
The Naming Ceremony of the Sisters Memorial Llandudno's First Lifeboat (1861-67). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...
Peter Jones China Ltd
THE ROYAL EVENT OF 1993 The 40th anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth IPs Coronation The Coronation D rv Plate Limited Edition 5000 The 2nd of June 1953 will always be remembered as the day H.M. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster...
Category: Advertisement
The Position of the Life-Boat House and Slip at St. Abbs Is Such That the Life-Boat Has to Be Launched With More Than the Usual Amount of Care
The position of the life-boat house and slip at St. Abbs is such that the life-boat has to be launched with more than the usual amount of care. This is because fishing boats, driving in in a storm, might be damaged on the slip if it pointed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Use of Oil for Smoothing Troubled Waters
WITH the view of diminishing the serious loss of life which takes place every year from fishing-vessels both on the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the North Sea, and other fishing grounds, the Com- mittee of the NATIONAL SEA FISHERIES...
Category: Articles
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SEPTEMBER 26TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. A sailing boat had been reported in distress, but no boat was found or reported missing. The Bullock-More Buoy had broken adrift and may have been mistaken for a boat. - Rewards, £8...