LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services June and July 1986
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 13.19.22.24 and 27 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 1 and July 31 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: June 12. 21. 24. 28, July 20 and 25 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in Rather: June 14. 15,...
Category: Services
Blue Peter Goes to Sea at Beaumaris By Ray Kipling
THE COAST OF NORTH WALES JS QUJCt at the beginning of April with the storms of winter mainly over and the summer still to come. The weather can change in a few moments from bright sunshine to strong hail storms which bombard the magnificent...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Flotta and H.M. Trawler Filey Bay
NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.
Jobs for the Girls
The women launchers at Boulmer, Northumberland. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor? How about Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker? Or, in the case of the RNLI, shore helper, medic, lifeboat crew and press officer? Mention any of these jobs and...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1935
1st May to 31st July, 1935.
Greater London.
Prince of Wales Day for the life-boats was held in Greater London, on 21st May, in Acton and Chiswick, Ashford, Barnes, Battersea, Beckenham, Bermondsey,...
Category: Branches
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn Known to Everyone As Maudie Comes from a Seafaring Family and Has Given So Much Help to the Lifeboat Service Over Many Years Th
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn, known to everyone as Maudie, comes from a seafaring family and has given so much help to the lifeboat service over many years that she has been made an honorary member of New Quay ladies' guild, Dyfed.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lucy and a Speed Boat
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
Services of the Life-Boats In March, April and May, 1951. 79 Lives Rescued
DURING March, life-boats went out on service 45 times and rescued 10 lives.
A LISTING TANKER New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S...
Category: Services
Rosaline
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.35 p.m. on yth June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the fishing vessel Rosaline had not returned to Aberaeran harbour. At 2.30 the life-boat St. Albans was launched in light airs...