LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
D class inflatable tows large yacht to safety A service to a yacht by Lough Swilly's D class inshore lifeboat last July has earned the station a letter of congratulation from the RNLI's chief of operations, Commodore George Cooper....
Where Do We Go from Here?
RNLI lifeboats have a nominal working life of some 20 years, so when the Institution's current slipway-launched lifeboats reach the end of their twodecades of work in 2003 there will be an obvious need to replace them - but what should...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund are to be congratulated on the admirable zeal and praiseworthy enthusiasm with which the local Life- boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have every where, apparently, been...
Category: Articles
Carol Sandra (1)
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...
Naming Ceremony at Ilfracombe
THE naming ceremony of a new motor life-boat at Ilfracombe, Devon, took place on 16th June. The life-boat is one of the first two of the new surf type, described on page 167. She has cost £2,750, and has been built out of a legacy from...
Category: Inaugurations
Rescue By Borough Engineer and Clerk
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th of September, 1957, Mr.
Harry Wilman, the borough engineer and surveyor of Colwyn Bay, learnt at his office that a boat was in distress in the bay. He arranged for a...
Category: Services
Central Appeals Committee
OPERATION LIFEBOAT has been a great success judging by the various reports that have already come in. The Scouts have set about raising the money in their usual energetic way by walking, swimming, rowing, cycling, clearing up rubbish,...
Category: Committee
Vellum for Seamanship of a High Order
AT 7.26 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Weymouth life-boat station, Mr. K. H.
Mooring Aldridge, that a motor vessel was ashore on Portland...
Category: Awards
Idun, of Bergen
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—At day- break, on the 28th March, during a strong north-easterly wind and in a heavy sea, a large barque was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands with a signal of distress flying. The Life-boat Bradford and the harbour...
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.
A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...
Category: Articles