LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. is to take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1968, at 3 p.m..
Category: Meetings
Robert Barr Obe,
Robert Barr OBE, whose charitable trust funded the St Abbs Atlantic 21 lifeboat Dorothy and Katherine Barr..
Category: Obituaries
Teesmouth's Tyne Class Phil Mead
Teesmouth'sTyne class Phil Mead (seen here in the 1990s) has been withdrawn after 21 years' s. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tranquillity (2)
Barrow, Lancashire.—Ar two o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that a fishing boat about six miles off shore between Barrow and Heysham appeared to be drifting. He told the...
Sandetti
BOAT ON FIRE Selsey, Sussex. At 2.12 a.m. on i3th July, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was on fire four miles south of Thorney Island and that a helicopter had been sent. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Snowdrop and Yvonne Risager
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 10.15 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor fishing vessel Snowdrop of Inverness was disabled off the Bass Rock, six miles east of...
Halcyon and El Alamein
Stromness, Orkney.—At 7.42 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1056, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing- boat Halcyon, of Wick, had gone ashore on Black Craig Rock in Hoy Sound. At 7.55 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...
International Yacht Paints
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Category: Advertisement
Limelight, of Greenock
At 5.17 a.m. on loth October, 1966, three red flares were sighted off Port Ellen light. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley left her moorings at 5.37 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was four...
Yacht Carraig
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.30 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, a message was received from the Coast Life-saving Service that the steam yacht Carraig was shipping heavy seas eight miles east of Clogher Head and needed help. At 10.57...