LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE eighty-ninth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Wednesday, April 16th, 1913, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
the Lord Mersey, P.O., presided, and amongst...
Category: Meetings
Naming Ceremonies of Eight Motor Life-Boats
EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...
Category: Inaugurations
Round Britain By Irb
THE rigid inflatable Psychedelic Surfer gained a certain amount of publicity in the Round Britain Power Boat race and was, I hear, looked at by some of our IRB crews at the various stopping points around the coast.
When I...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Hatcliffe
Long tow FORTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Eyemouth lifeboat station at about 1235 on Friday March 25, 1983, that MFV Hatdiffe had broken down and was anchored 4V2 miles north east of St Abbs Head, seven miles north north...
Fishing Cobles
On the 4th March between twenty and thirty fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin, carrying crews of about eighty men and boys, were placed in jeopardy by the sudden springing up of a gale of wind from S. by E. with a rough...
Sale of Foreign Postage Stamps
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, proposes to form a stamp club in order to sell foreign postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution. She would be very glad to...
Category: Articles
Miss Jane Leresche, of Seaford
Miss Jane Leresche, who died in October, 1937, had been the honorary secretary of the Seaford branch for nearly ten years, and before that the assistant honorary secretary for over four years. During her honorary sec- retaryship the branch...
Category: Obituaries
A Gallant Boy
ON the 26th of March, three Army officers from Dover, members of the Royal Artillery Yacht Club, set sail in a yacht for Margate. Just after four in the afternoon they were seen by the shore attendant attempting to enter Ramsgate harbour. He...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (2)
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...
A Cabin Cruiser
ON FIRE At 2.31 p.m. on 29th April, 1965, the motor mechanic observed a cabin cruiser on fire about two miles off shore. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 2.35 and...