LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Windermere
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.15 on the morning of the 26th of October, 1954, the Cobh Pilots reported that the three-masted schooner Windermere, of Dublin, had hove to with an engine breakdown, and had asked if the life- boat would escort her...
Obituaries
Obituaries It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: April 1987 Captain Olaf Bjornstad, ex-Secretary General of the Norwegian Lifeboat Society. He was appointed an honorary life governor of the RNLI in...
Category: Obituaries
Lady Maude
Redcar, Yorks. At 9.45 a.m. on the 26th of June, 1965, a fishing coble was reported in difficulties about two miles away in a rough sea. The life-boat Aguila Wren launched at 9.50 on a flooding tide and soon came up with the coble Lady Maude...
Healthspan
ealthspan vitamins 'Let food be your medicine and medicine your food* Hippocrates, 400BC Good nutrition is the foundation of good health The vital contribution of nutrition to better health is hardly a new concept. It's one of the...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Services In 1910
Lives saved.
Aberystwith, two small fishing boatsot 2 Adela, fishing boat, of Llan- dudno— saved boat and 2 Aeron Belle, schooner, of Aber- ystwith 3 Agamemnon, s.s., of Liverpool stood by vessel.
Agnes...
Category: Services
Princely Donation:
Princely donation: the Fred Olsen Lines shipping company has generously presented the RNLI with a further £2,000 to complete the purchase of a third lifeboat in its name. Already paid for by the company are a D class inflatable and an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...
Dinghies
Near gale in Chichester Harbour A CAPSIZED SAILING DINGHY with children and an adult in the water, sighted at the entrance to Emsworth Channel some five miles from Hayling Island ILB station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM...
Jannett and Jane
RAMSGATE.—At 12.45 A.M. on the 27th January, during a fresh N. breeze, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Vulcan, left the harbour in response to signal guns which had been fired by the light-vessels. On Hearing the North Sand...
Roaming
Arklow, Co. Wicklow— On the 28th November, 1938, the trawler Roaming, of Arklow, with a crew of three, lost her rudder while fishing in Courtown Bay. She made for Arklow with the flood tide, using trawl boards for steering, and sending up...