LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Piciess
Damage limitation Caught out by severe weather that had not been forecast, the yacht Piciess had broken mast and sail and had engine failure. The 6.5m yacht and its crew of two, were at the mercy of the seas, 5 miles east of Lymington...
R.N.L.I.'s Management Review
As part of its constant efforts to mee* increasing demands on its services in the most efficient way possible, the R.N.L.I, has engaged P.A. Management Consultants Ltd. to help draw up a programme to improve the Institution's cost...
Category: Committee
Ellie Park
— The schooner Ellie Park of Barrow, bound from the Dee to Red Bay in the north of Ireland encountered very heavy weather and when trying to make port had her sails blown away in a heavy squall.
The anchor was run out, but...
Page & Moy
Destinations include: Spitzbergen, Fjords & North Cape 15 nights from 14 - 29 August Cruise No. 4A01 The National Trust Northern Capitals Cruise 7 nights from £74!t 21 - '2X August Cruise No. 4YI3 Magnificent Norwegian Fjords 7...
Category: Advertisement
Endeavour
WATCH AT THE BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.30 a.m. on I9th April, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea was getting extremely bad on the harbour bar. As part of the fishing fleet was still at sea the life-boat Mary...
Obituary
BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...
Category: Obituaries
Dragonfly and Xanadu
Rough conditions for Brighton's Atlantic Ashort but difficult service by Brighton's Atlantic 75 last December has earned two of her crew the Institution's Thanks on Vellum. Prompt action, good seamanship, a brave swim in rough...
Camelia, Magdalene, Mon Ami and Annie Mearns
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...
Lifeboat People
Mr D. K. Redford, who is a member of the Committee of Management, was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List.
* * * After double gold medallist Dick Evans, ex coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat, took part in the BBC...
Category: Articles
Regalia
The fishing vessel Begalia, of Douglas, was under observation about seven miles off the shore on the 3rd January, on account of the very choppy sea and the strong W.N.W. gale prevailing. About noon the vessel was missed, and the Coxswain of...