LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Baltic Exchange Life-Boat
The new life-boat at Salcombe, which was given the name The Baltic Exchange to commemorate the support received by the Institution over many years from the Baltic Exchange, was named by Mrs. H. M. Whithouse, the widow of a former Chairman of...
Category: Inaugurations
Sunray
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 6.40 on the night of the 1st of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vesselwas burning rags two miles north-by- east of Heugh Light. A strong south- erly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 7.20...
Patronita
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.50 on the morning of the 4th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yawl Patronita of Portsmouth needed help eight miles south-east of Hastings. This informa- tion had been received...
Conference In South Wales
AT this conference delegates from fourteen branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor met at Cardiff on 29th May. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Committee
The Sixth International Life-Boat Conference
THE sixth international life-boat con- ference was held at Ostend from July 23rd to the 25th, 1951, on the invita- tion of the Belgian Administration of Marine. M. H. de Vos, the Director General of the Administration, pre- sided. Fifteen...
Category: Meetings
Foresters Friendly to RNLI history
Foresters Friendly Society, which has an enduring relationship with the RNLI, is sponsoring the RNLI Heritage Trust through 2011.
The sponsorship coincides with the RNLI being chosen by the Society’s High Chief Ranger,...
Category: Articles
The Stern Lift on Trinity House Pilot Vessel Patrol
The stern lift on Trinity House pilot vessel Patrol.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trial Designs For Safety Signs On Beaches And Slipways
Trial designs for safety signs on beaches and slipways. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
BARGE'S CREW RESCUED IN HEAVY SEAS Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.45 on the evening of the 15th December, 1962, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen about one mile north-west of the coastguard station, and at 6.58 the...
Rask (1)
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...