LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Indian Applicant
THE Institution has had a letter from a consulting engineer in Travancore- Cochin, India, asking to be told how he "can get selected as a life-boatman in the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution in England." He is, he says, a ...
Category: Correspondence
Highland Leader
At 6.45 P.M. on the 16th November, the motor life-boat John and MaryMeik- lam of Gladswood put out in response to signals from the Cockle light-vessel. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing with a very heavy sea on the sands. The steam drifter...
Obituary
WE regret to record the death, at the end of last September, of the Rev. R.
W. PEKIIY CIRCUITT, Vicar of Brixham since 1900, and Honorary Secretary of the Brixham and Paignton Branch of the Institution for the past fifteen...
Category: Obituaries
Rebecca and Mary
PORTHDINLLAEN.—At daybreak on the 30th Jan. the schooner Rebecca and Mary, of Carnarvon, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position off the Lifeboat Station, with a signal of distress flying. It was blowing a hard gale from N.N.W....
Ina, of Blyth
Blyth, Northumberland. — At about 11.50 A.M. on the 8th December, 1937, it was reported to the coxswain that the motor fishing boat Ina, of Blyth, with a. crew of two, was out fishing.
The weather had got worse since she...
Estella
FOUR RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.25 on the morning of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the s.s. Baltic Sun had reported a small boat in difficulties near...
The S.S. Cyclades
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground in a dangerous position near North Goodwin buoy.
At 10.36 the life-boat Michael and Lily...
Appointments
Mr. S. Macdonald, F.R.I.N.A., M.I.E.S.S., S.N.A.M.E., has been appointed Chief Staff Officer (Technical) of the R.N.L.I. Mr. Macdonald is married and is aged 50.
He was educated at Greenock and Edinburgh Academies and...
Category: Committee
Emily, of Ballycotton
APRIL 2 6TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 6.15 in the evening a message was received that the fishing boat Emily, of Ballycotton, returning from Youghal fishing grounds, was drifting out to sea and flying a signal of distress, about 5 miles...
Services by Lifeboats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1945 During the year life-boats were launched 497 times. Of these launches 118 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
Category: Services