LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
Togo
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.27 on the night of the 18th of July, 1951, a wireless message was received from the Island of Jethou that the motor boat Togo had broken down and was drifting south of Herm. At 11.3 the life-boat Queen...
Maureen
Holyhead, Anglesey. — At 6.10 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Maureen, with twelve on board, had broken down off the Skerries.
She had reached Skerries Island,...
Richard and Emily and Ella
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 23rd December, 1886, signals of distress were observed about a mile distant from Winterton, during a strong N. gale aad a very heavy sea, shown by two vessels which had been in collision. The...
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Category: Advertisement
Sulabassana
Yacht aground WHILE A RACE FROM ABERSOCH Was being timed into Howth Harbour at about 2330 on Saturday, August 28, 1976, the yacht Sulabassana of Holyhead, a 32' Nicholson, attempted to pass inside the buoys marking the rocks off the end...
A Rowing Boat
W Moelfre, Anglesey. — On the 2nd August a party of six put out in a rowing boat from Benllech. They lost their oars. The owner of the boat, seeing this, went after them in another boat.
He reached them, and got aboard with...
Right: Passengers Help Pack Away The Enormous Balloon
Right: Passengers help pack away the enormous balloon Photos: Laura wiltshire. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charles E. Fielding
MR. CHARLES E. FIELDING deputy chairman of the Manchester and District branch, who had been an honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for 55 years and an honorary life governor of the Institution, died in the Isle of Man in October...
Category: Obituaries
A Radio Controlled Life-Boat
During the 'open day' arranged by the Port of Liverpool branch in aid of the R.N.L.I., an interesting demonstration was given in which a model life-boat aided a model trawler on the boating lake at Hoylake.
The...
Category: Articles