LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launches
LAUnCHeS 2,210 LIFeBoAt AnD HoVeRcRAFt LAUncHes APRIL–jUne 2007 12-32 JOY AND CHARLES BEEBY 14-17 ELIZABETH AND RONALD 17-26 HENRY ALSTON HEWAT on-####(12-##) Mersey class last built: 1993 refit cost: £190,000 on-####(14-##) trent class...
Category: Services
The S.S. King Ja Ja
ORME'S HEAD.—On the 24th December, at about noon, the s.s. King Ja Ja, of Carnarvon, exhibited signals of distress in Llandudno Bay. The Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched, and on arriving at the vessel it was found that her...
A Yacht (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off the Little Orme. Shortly afterwards the yacht...
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: November 9 (twice), 20 and January 1 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: December 9 and February 16 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: January 21 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in Rather ON 1068: February 21...
Category: Services
Seamus Mason at the helm of Coventry and Warwickshire in April 2006, a few days before his retirement Photo: Nick Leach
Seamus Mason at the helm of Coventry and Warwickshire in April 2006, a few days before his retirement Photo: Nick Leach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat (2)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of Septem- ber, 1958, the coastguard at Rhyl informed the coxswain that two men in a rowing boat were in difficulties one mile north of the pier. At 4.50 the life- boat...
The Invasion Barge L.C.V.P. 1058
AUGUST 30TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 9.10 in the morning the naval control reported that an invasion barge was lying near the Blacktail Spit Buoy with her engine broken down and nothing to secure her. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing...
Close Up
CLOse up Innovation stations Providing more than just a reassuring reminder of the RNLI’s presence, the charity’s 232 stations are as carefully designed as the lifeboats they house.
Elizabeth Paine finds out more When a...
Category: Articles
The Centenary: In North Wales
ANGLESEY AND CARNARVON- SHIRE.
Colwyn Bay.
Colwyn Bay had a Life-boat Proces- sion and Carnival on 24th August, when the town was full of visitors. The Life- boat from Llanddulas, drawn by a tractor,...
Category: Articles
Winter I.R.B. Stations
Nineteen inshore rescue boat stations will remain operational in England during the winter of 1966/67, seven in Wales, five in Scotland and one in Ireland.
The English stations are: Bembridge, Burnham-on-Crouch, Eastney,...
Category: Articles