LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
TWO CASUALTIES TOWED TO SAFETY - CREW INJURED Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour...
Category: Services
November
Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...
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Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
Category: Meetings
Furthest North: Aith and Lerwick Lifeboat Stations Shetland By Joan Davies
THULE? The most remote land sighted by the Romans? Was it Shetland? Perhaps. Certainly Shetland is the most northerly of the British Isles and Aith and Lerwick, both lying above latitude 60 degrees north, are the most northerly of the...
Category: Articles
October
Launches 45 Lives rescued 66 OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2....
Category: Services
News from the Branches. List of New Branches
List of New Branches.
THE following new Branches have been formed since the list published in The Lifeboat for February, 1927 :— Branch.
Abergavenny . . . . .
Abertillery . . . ....
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WHITBY.—On the 1st October, at 4 P.M., the Life-boat Harriott Forteath was launched and put four of the crew of a Cornish fishing-boat, the Matchless, on board their vessel, which was riding at anchor near Whitby Rock, and was in great...
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News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1936
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held in Greater London on 19th May, carried out by ninety-two branches. The amount raised was £5,046, an increase of £138 on 1935.
The challenge shield for...
Category: Branches
Tonnage Admeasurement. Report of the Royal Commission on Tonnage
FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...
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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
Category: Services