LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue By Borough Engineer and Clerk
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th of September, 1957, Mr.
Harry Wilman, the borough engineer and surveyor of Colwyn Bay, learnt at his office that a boat was in distress in the bay. He arranged for a...
Category: Services
Wyre, of Fleetwood,
LYTHAM.—About 11 A.M. on the 11th April, the schooner Wyre, of Pleetwood, having had all her sails blown away, was forced ashore, by the violence of a N.W. gale, on the Horse Bank, at the entrance to the River Ribble. Heavy snow-squalls...
Annual General Meeting of the Governors
THE Annual General Meeting was held at the Mansion House, in the morning of March 4th, 1924, for the purpose of dealing with statutory business, S r Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee, presiding.
The CHAIRMAN :...
Category: Meetings
Comedian Frankie Howerd Looks on In Amazement at Braunton Rnli Team Competing In a Jubilee Pond Bailing Competition In Barnstaple Staged By Barnstaple Round
Comedian Frankie Howerd looks on in amazement at Braunton RNLI team competing in a Jubilee pond bailing competition in Barnstaple staged by Barnstaple Round Table. Some 14 sponsored teams took part. Braunton bailed 25 gallons in six hours... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Founded 4th March, 1824.—Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
PATRON.
HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...
Category: Articles
The Crew
Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.
Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...
Category: Articles
Tine Andersen of Hull
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.22 a.m.
on 8th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the drifter Tine Andersen of Hull, with one man on board, had dragged her anchor and was drifting on to a lee shore at...
To the Help of the Invasion Port
Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...
Category: Articles
"The Old Cork Buoy."
THE night was dark, the tempest roared, The waves ran mountains high: It seemed to every hand on board As if the sea and sky In one commingled mass was blent And welded by the gale, Save where the quiv'ring light'niag rent The...
Category: Poetry
"Light of All Nations" on the Goodwin Sands
THE following letter has been forwarded to the Committee of this Institution, to which, considering the great importance of the subject, and the apparent feasibility of the proposition, we give insertion, as we fully concur in Mr....
Category: Correspondence