LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ex-HDML Eun Mara an Tar
Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...
Notes of the Quarter
DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Institution opened no fewer than 49 new stations and closed 11. These contrasting figures are evidence of the way in which the R.N.L.I. has been coping with the increasing demands...
Category: Articles
B.S. Callings, Premier, and Hilda
JANUARY 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The fishing cobles B. S. Callings, Premier, and Hilda were at sea. A north-easterly wind was blowing, and by the afternoon a heavy ground swell was breaking across the bay. At 2.55 the motor life-boat...
Coronation Supplement. The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
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Notes of the Quarter
IN a world in which good news tends more and more to be excluded from the front pages of newspapers, it is gratifying to be able to record that the R.N.L.I.'s record last year was one of consistent and outstanding success. The number of...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1895
Jan. 10.—Voted 11. to two men, with thanks to one of them, for saving the crew of three men from a coastguard boat which was capsized off Shanagau Point, co. Antrim, in a squall on the 8th November.
Also 31. 10s. to seven...
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Admiral Sir Rae McKaig KCB CBE,
January 1996 Admiral Sir Rae McKaig KCB CBE, member of the committee of management since 1984 and member of the search and rescue committee since 1987..
Category: Obituaries
The Rye Life-Boat Disaster
The Mayor of Rye's Fund; Mcmcrials to the Seventeen Life-boatmen.
ON 22nd June a meeting was held between the Attorney-General (Sir William* Jowitt, E.G.) and the Trustees of the Fund which the Mayor of Rye raised for...
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Naming the Life-Boat
IN previous issues of this Journal * the building and testing of a Life-boat have been described, and it is proposed in this and ensuing articles to give some account of the further life history of the boat.
The boat being...
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The Motor Coble Premier II
The motor coble Premier II put to sea, to lift her crab pots, in the early morning of the 11th March. Later the weather became rough, with a strong E.S.E. breeze and a heavy sea, and it was decided to launch the motor life-boat Herbert Joy...