LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth November, 1937.
Sir GODFRBY BARING, Bt., in the chair:— Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Mr. Gordon Armstrong . . 8,000 0 0 Cunard...
Category: Committee
In For The Long Haul
In for the long haul The yacht Paka’a was returning across the Channel from Cherbourg, on the evening of 27 May 2007, when her auxiliary engine began to fail The weather was appalling – against the 50–60 knot headwinds and torrential rain,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CROMER, NORFOLK.—On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
The second annual raft race organised by York branch on the River Ouse was held on a sunny Saturday in July and about 40 entries mustered at the starting point, the Viking Hotel. The Lord Mayor of York and Mayoress judged all entries for the...
Category: Donations
(Below) Lytham's Tyne Class Lifeboat, Sarah Emily Harrop.
(Below) Lytham's Tyne class lifeboat, Sarah Emily Harrop.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Station's Arun Class Lifeboat Is Pictured (Inset)
The station's Arun class lifeboat is pictured fmset/.. - View image in PDF
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Joseph Ibbitson (Centre) Aboard the Padstow Lifeboat With Three of the Coastguards Who Rescued Him and Coxswain Trevor England (Right)
Joseph Ibbitson (centre) aboard the Padstow lifeboat with three of the coastguards who rescued him, and coxswain Trevor England (right). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mountblairy, of Plymouth
Rosslare Harbour (Co. Wexford).
On the 20th October, the schooner Mountblairy, of Plymouth, was driven ashore about five miles from Rosslare Harbour in a whole gale, with a very heavy sea running. She lay surrounded by...
Notes of the Quarter
ON 21st January, 1970, Fraserburgh life-boat capsized with the loss of five members of her crew. There was only one survivor, Mr. Jackson Buchan. On 25th March Mr. Goronwy Roberts, Minister of State, Board of Trade, stated in the House of...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE first three months of 1958 have offered striking evidence of the help given by life-boats to a great variety of vessels serving the commerce of the country in different ways and, in particular, to fishing boats. Of the 106 launches by...
Category: Articles