LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
O There cannot be many works of fiction based on the lifeboat service and of these few are likely to ring true to the men who man the boats. Although the majority of people would say that they are well acquainted with the RNLI, its lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
East Division MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT STAYS WITH CASUALTY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds Whitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels...
Category: Services
The Screw Steamer Hellenis of Dublin
On the 15th Sep- tember, the screw-steamer, Hettenis, of Dublin, bound from Naples and Lisbon to Dublin, with a general cargo, and having 26 bullocks on deck, grounded on Ark- low Bank, during a strong gale from W. to W.S.W. The Arklow...
The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
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List of Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following lists show the of Life-boat Days in the various districts, and also those places where Life-boat Days have been arranged but the dates have not yet been definitely fixed owing to the uncertainty caused by the present industrial...
Category: Articles
Shoreline Section
BOAT SHOW 1975: what a memorable eleven days. Here is a diary of just some of the happenings recorded on the Shoreline stand: Wednesday, January 1 Opening day. Arrive early to prepare stand and display insignia and enrolment forms. Impressed...
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Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings
IT will have been observed, and doubtless with regret by many of our readers, that in the early part of last month (December, 1866) Government notified their intention of, at least for a season, discontinuing the well-known Storm Warnings to...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1935, to 31st January, 1936
Greater London.
BARNET.—Mrs. G. T. Moore appointed joint honorary secretary.
CLAPHAM. — " Bring - and - buy " sale.
Three whist drives.
HORNSEY.—Whist...
Category: Branches
Appledore June 21 1986:
Appledore, June 21, 1986: Mrs Trevor Thomas demonstrates the only way to christen an Atlantic 21. In this case it was Manchester and District No XXXII, funded by an appeal inspired by a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, Mr Trevor Thomas. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs