LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alarm, of Belfast
On the 23rd March, the ship Alarm, of Belfast, was driven into Ballycotton Bay, during a strong gale of wind, and came to anchor under shelter of the island. As the gale increased, however, she dragged her anchors and drifted towards the...
December (1)
RONALDSWAY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1945, an Anson aeroplane came down in the sea near Ronaldsway, about 440 yards off shore. The weather was calm. Captain D. G. Pickard, of the Irish Guards, was out...
Category: Services
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Comet
At 9 P.M. on the 8th January signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the vicinity of the Bell Buoy, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald was launched. The ketch Comet, of Barn- staple, loaded with a cargo of coal, and bound...
Awards
Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
Category: Awards
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter) Founded in 1824 supported solely by voluntary contributions
PATRONESS.
HER. MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Annual Meeting
The Prince of Wales's Presidential Address.
THE Hundred and Seventh Annual Meet- ing of the Governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, West- minster, on Wednesday, 13th May, at 2.30...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUCKIE.—At 9 A.M. on the 7th Aug. last a pilot-boat put off to bring the schooner Sen Aigen, coal laden from Sunderland, into the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a rough sea. The pilot boarded the vessel and the boat proceeded...
Category: Services
Aeolian
Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the...
Persevere
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the motor barge Persevere, of Rochester, which had a crew of two, had brokendown and sprung a leak and had been taken in tow by a motor...