LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124
JANUARY 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 P.M. flag officer in charge Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, for the services of the life-boat for R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124, which was aground on Scroby Sands...
Lifeboat Services
D CLASS VEERED DOWN IN CONFUSED SEAS Family of five snatched to safety from base of cliff on rising tide A service by Little and Broad Haven's D class on 23 September 1995 to a family stranded at the base of a cliff on a rising tide has...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Day In Floods
LIFE-BOAT DAY in Chippenham, Wilts., was held on September 16th, and in spite of the fact that the Kiver Avon was ten feet above its normal level, and the centre of the town flooded, the collectors went about their work undismayed and...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON.—Annual Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild and Life-boat Day workers on 29th April. Speakers : The Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, a Vice- President of the Guild,...
Category: Branches
The Admiralty Torpedo Craft C.T.21 (1)
JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.
There was a thick fog, but the sea was...
Rnli News
Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.
The ceremony was held at...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th December, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Reine des Anges
At 4 A.M., on the 13th September, flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded over the sands through the breakers, in the direction in which the lights had been last seen; but no...
Pass of Leny
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
Jubilee Fix It!
Jubilee Fix it! Last year was an important year for the Scarborough Ladies' lifeboat guild as they celebrated their Diamond Jubilee. The spring bank holiday was packed with fund raising activities including a festival of flowers held at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs