LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Y L a News
THE Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association is going from strength to strength as word gets about that a yachtsman who is not a member is like a ship without a rudder. As reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, there is...
Category: Articles
Vale of Conway
During a gale of wind on the 3rd May, the smack Vale of Gonway, of Port Dinorwic, was seen in a disabled state at some distance from the land, off the south end of the Isle of Whithorn, in Wigtonshire. The Life-boat Charley Peek "was...
Drawing to a Close
A total of £312, 228 has been raised so far from the 1990 promotion in conjunction with Volvo Concessionaires Ltd.
Eight Volvo 340 cars were offered as prizes in raffles throughout the various fund raising regions. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norseman, of Montrose
OCTOBER 31ST. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 8.5 at night the Portpatrick coastguard reported a fishing vessel making distress signals off the Isle of Whithorn. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with heavy rain. The sea was very rough. The motor...
Barendrecht
JANUARY 16TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 11.15 on the night of the 15th of January the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Steenhead. She was the Dutch tanker Barendrecht, a vessel of several thousand tons, bound for the Clyde....
Albino
Yacht stranded ON PASSAGE from the Isle of Whithorn to Kippford on Wednesday, August 24, the 23' yacht Albino mistook the entry into the Urr Estuary and went to the west of Almorness Point, driving into the shallow Orchardton Bay. On...
New Life-Boats
PORT LOGAN, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—It will be remembered that in the number of the Life-Boat Journal issued in Novem- ber last it was mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the latest self-righting type...
Category: Inaugurations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MINEHEAD, SOMERSETSHIRE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Minehead, there being sufficient men available for manning and launching the boat, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the...
Category: Articles
Cherbourg to Hamble By John Spicer
YE OLDE WHYTE HARTE, Hamble, has for a number of years supported the RNLI, culminating in a total of £1,500 being raised in 1979. Each year new ideas have been thought of to raise money and last year during opening hours and amid much...
Category: Donations
Notes of the Quarter
1964 WAS a record year with more launches by rescue craft of the R.N.L.I. than ever before. In 1965 a similar pattern seems to be developing. In two of the three months covered by this edition of THE LIFE-BOAT records were again established....
Category: Articles