LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Colston
Dfracombe, Devon. At 5.50 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the m.v. Colston was seriously ill and needed hospital treatment, and asked if the life-boat...
Two New Vice-Presidents
LORD SEMPILL and the Marquess Camden have been elected vice-presidents of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Lord Sempill has served on the Committee of Management of the Institution since 1927 and the Marquess...
Category: Committee
Kia Ora
— The motor life-boat White Star was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 27th July, as the coastguard had telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in distress about eighty yards oft the rocks E.S.E. of Kemmaes Head. A moderate N. wind was blowing....
Wave
SIDMOUTH.—At about 1 P.M. on the 7th August, the schooner Wave, of Guernsey, being at anchor in a dangerous position off this station, it blowing a gale from S., hoisted a signal of distress, and the Life-boat Rimington was launched, and...
During a Water Safety Demonstration at Port Isaac, Cornwall,
During a water safety demonstration at Port Isaac, Cornwall, the local IRB and the Padstow life-boat, with other organisations, combined to show what happens when, for example, a sailing dinghy is upset. Here the Port Isaac IRB is making for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bull Lightvessel
LIFE-BOAT TAKES SICK MAN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.45 on the evening of the 23rd February, 1962, the Humber Conservancy Board in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board the Bull lightvessel needed urgent...
Greek Ship Aground In Hurricane
AT 9.25 on 25th October, 1967, Valentia radio informed the assistant honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station that the Greek motor vessel Razani was aground three quarters of a mile east south east of Black Head, Galway Bay....
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles
Twenty-one of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 17th April when a heavy ground swell got up and increased as the tide ebbed, making it quite unfit for the cobles to take the harbour. Between 8 and 9 A.M.
the fishing...
The Belgian Fishing Trawler Amelie Suzanne
BELGIAN TRAWLER AIDED A BELGIAN fishing trawler, which ran ashore near Salcombc, Devon, on 1st April, 1972, led to the local life-boat being launched soon after 1.30a.m.
The wind was westerly, force 5 to 6, with a moderate...
The Queen Stepping Ashore from the Royal British Legion Jubilee at Henley
The Queen stepping ashore from The Royal British Leg/on Jubilee at Henley.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs