LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eastbourne Naming Ceremony
The new Eastbourne life-boat Vincent Nesfield, which is a 37-foot Oakley, was named by Esmond Knight, the actor, at Eastbourne on 9th April, 1969, the boat having been provided from the proceeds of the Joyce Giddins Fund and legacies left by...
Category: Inaugurations
New Life-Boats
AYR, SCOTLAND.—The Life-boat at this station has been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 35 ft. long by 10 ft. wide, rowing 12 oars and fitted with 2 drop keels. Like her predecessor she is named the Janet Hoyle, as desired by the...
Category: Inaugurations
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Walmer.Kent.—On the 6th of August, 1954, two boys walked round the cliff from St. Margaret's to Kingsdown, but were trapped by the tide at Kingsdown. They both tried to swim round the cliff, but one of them got into difficulties. His...
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-third Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the Mansion House, London, by kind per- mission of the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, 17th April, 1917, at 3.30 P.M. H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G....
Category: Meetings
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DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...
Regina
MONTROSE.—On the same day a very heavy sea was breaking on this coast and on the bar, and, as several steam and sailing vessels were awaiting the tide to enable them to enter the harbour, the Life-boatmen were on the look-out the whole of...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Oars
LIFE-BOAT OARS.
As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...
The Fundraisers
Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...
Category: Articles