LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming and Dedication from Page 13
beautifully as only young Welsh voices can. Both band and choir had to endure an icy wind which astonishingly did not impair their music. An anthem composed specially for the naming ceremony by Trevor Roberts was much appreciated by the...
Category: Inaugurations
Shoreline
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW is now over and once again the results are very encouraging: 1,011 new members were enrolled. Such a good result could not have been achieved, however, without the help and dedication of our voluntary...
Category: Articles
Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 27th of November, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was at sea. There was a strong north-easterly wind with a rough sea,...
Inshore Lifeboats: Handing-Over Ceremonies at Crimdon Dene Hartlepool and Little and Broad Haven
SPRING, AND A NEW SEASON of inshore lifeboat service was given a fine start by the dedication of three boat generously given to the Institution by its friends: an Atlantic 21 for Hartlepool and D class ILBs for Crimond Dene and Little and...
Category: Inaugurations
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mr John Skellorn, of the Gravesend Sailing Club, gives a tip about raising money by paperboat racing.
He writes: 'As far as we know, only Belfleet yacht club and ourselves have organised paperboat racing. It started...
Category: Articles
Supertaff
Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force windsA Courtmacsherry Harbour trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had...
Competitive Trials With Pulling Life-Boats
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION carried out at Lowestoft in 1892 a series of competitive trials and tests with, sailing Life-boats the details of which were subsequently published. The trials with the various types of pulling Life-boats...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money (Continued from Page 135)
(continued from page 135) service. During the past year £1,300 has been raised in Coventry, and the guild has planted a plane tree on one of the city's lovely greens to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the...
Category: Donations
Expedit
ARBROATH, N.B.—At about 8.30 A.M.
on the 15th April, a brigantine was seen approaching the shore from the eastward.
As she was showing a signal of distress the Peoples Journal No. 2 Life-boat was launched...
Tranmere
SELSEY.—The barque Tranmere, of Liverpool, bound from Hull to Cardiff in ballast, brought up off Selsey Bill, during a gale of wind from the 8. and in a very heavy sea, at about noon on the 2nd September.
A fisherman's...