LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seventeen Hours In Gale. Five Were Rescued from Yacht
A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...
Category: Services
Blue Star, Avocette 2, Islay Mist, Lady Llamedos and Amie
Breezy conditions lead to six calls in one day for Plymouth's Arun Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth was kept extremely busy on 9 August 1994 when she received no less than six calls - launching first at 0048 and...
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Two girls stranded A DOCK POLICEMAN at Hartlepool saw two girls stranded on a sewer pipe near Seaton Beach on the afternoon of Sunday May 27. He informed the Dock Master's office immediately and, as the crew were in the vicinity of the...
Ceol-na-Mara
Aberdeen's Arun class lifeboat was on service for almost seven hours in gale force winds when the fishing vessel Ceol-na-Mara sprang a leak some 30 miles from the station.The Arun, BP Forties, was launched at 0430 on 12 February 1995...
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
Star
" At 2 A.M. on the 23rd October, the Lifeboat proceeded to the assistance of a schooner; bnt her services were not called into requisition. The boat regained her station at six o'clock, and had only been moored forty minutes when...
A Small Sailing Boat
BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—A small sailing boat, north of the Middle Mouse and drifting to sea, was seen by the coastguard, on the afternoon of the 26th August signalling for assistance. A message was at once sent to the Life-boat Station, and at 4...
D Class Named at Lytham
Lytham lifeboat, John Kennedy, is launched down Lytham Jetty in front of the large crowd of guests and onlookers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Cocker and Sons
Launch the 160th anniversary of the RNLI by introducing THE COXSWAIN to your garden Produced by rose specialists James Cocker and Sons, Aberdeen, in limited quantity for RNLI friends and supporters, this peach pink, sweetly scented hybrid...
Category: Advertisement
Victoria
SUNDERLAND.—On the 14th April, at about 5.30 P.M., during stormy weather and a heavy sea, with the wind on shore, 9 lives were saved by the Life-boat John,Foulston, from the barque Victoria, of Sunderland, which vessel, while on a voyage to...