LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In stark contrast to Barry Dock's A class lifeboat, Margaret Frances
in stark contrast to Barry Dock's Ai class lifeboat, Margaret Frances Lc the pulling and sailing lifeboat, due Victoria, takes a trip alongside Barf waterfront during the centenary celebrations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GIVE IT A GO: BEACHCOMBING
Mermaid’s purses, pelican feet, hag stones – would you recognise these on the beach? Beachcomber and RNLI volunteering champion Debbie Corke gives us her tips for coastal finds
This summer, you’ll probably be spending some...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services June July and August 1981
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire D class inflatable: August 3 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: June 13. 18, July 24. 25 and August 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 3. 4, 8, 24. July 13 (twice), 28, 29. August 6, 20 and 21 Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported the much lamented death on the 2nd instant of His Grace ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth DUKE...
Category: Committee
Sir William Hillary, Bart
AMONG those men distinguished in the annals of their country for their exertions in the cause of humanity in saving life from ship- wreck, the name of Sir WILLIAM HILLARY must always claim a foremost place, not only as having personally...
Category: Articles
Building Up to the Millennium Ii
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings continues his look at the Institution's shore facilities T;• he effects of coastal geology on the costs of operating the lifeboat service may not be immediately apparent, but the relative...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Unusual hazard Sir - I was skipper of the yacht Dalriada when she sank in the small hours of 2 July 1988 (Lifeboat Services, Winter issue), and was eventually transferred to the shore from HMS Battleaxe by Coxswain Billy Lennon and the...
Category: Correspondence
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1865
A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Hilary
APRIL 9TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that the 7,000-ton S.S. Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward bound from Brazil to Liverpool with general cargo...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st January, 1880: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee