LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Purr Purr
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.
on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...
A Hundred Years Ago
Youghal, Ireland.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown : a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
Category: Articles
Lena
Arbroath, Angus. At 11.3 on the night of the 6th September, 1961, a message was received from the Mont- rose life-boat station asking for the help of the Arbroath life-boat in the search that was being made for the pleasure boat Lena of...
Realf (4)
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
Annual Report. 1906
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...
Category: Annual Reports
Fast Work
The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...
Category: Articles
Otley All Saints First School Storm Force
Otley All Saints First School Storm Force group was started more than two years ago and has a regular membership of more than 40, aged between four and eight years.
They meet once a month or so to learn about the RNLI, to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
After discussion and further reflection, Dr Dunning wrote again:
Despite all my experience in GP surgeries and hospital settings I was surprised how affected I was by the experience. I’ve had some thoughts since that might...
Category: Articles
Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary
JANUARY 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Four of the Filey motor fishing boats, Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary, were out fishing. A strong wind got up from the S.E., with a heavy swell, and at 12.25 in...
Sir William Priestley
Sir William Priestley, J.P., who died on March 25, a few days before his seventy-third birthday, was one of the Institution's most generous and in- fluential friends in the north of England.
The head of a big business...
Category: Obituaries