LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Coble
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 9.45 a.m. on 5th April, 1967, concern was felt for a small fishing coble off Kettleness in the rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
There was a gale from the west north west with a rough sea. It...
Marie Helene
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 10.45 P-m- °n 29tn June, 1967, it was learned that flares had been sighted 14 miles east south east of the Lizard. This was confirmed by the Norwegian motor vessel Possum. The life-boat, The Duke of...
San Marino
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.8 p.m. on 2ist July, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a fishing vessel was in danger of going on to the rocks at Poolbeg.
The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 6.20 in a...
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KEEPER LANDED At 9 a.m. on 9th November, 1965, the Inspector of Irish Lights asked the honorary secretary for the life-boat's assistance to place a deputy keeper on Tuskar Rock lighthouse. The life-boat Douglas Hyde set out at 10.45...
English Rose III on Show
When Farnham, Surrey, staged a radio and television show for three days in October, 1966, English Rose HI was exhibited and attracted a great deal of interest.
The expenses of the show, which was arranged by Lloyd &...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Institution will take place at Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 p.m. on 2ist March, 1967..
Category: Meetings
Figs 2
Figs 2 and 3 fbelow): The a/I purpose inflatable stretcher on trials alongside the new Arun lifeboat Robert Edgar.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Strathearn Glass Ltd
STRATHEARN GLASS have created the above engraved block paperweight, designed and engraved by their Staff Engraver, Alasdair C. Gordon D.A. (Edin.), to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the R.N.L.I.
It is being offered in...
Category: Advertisement
Yarmouth's Arun Class Lifeboat Joy and John Wade
Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat Jo and John Wade is pictured during a service to the Maltese-registered Ro-Ro vessel/4/A M'tff e/-/during the severe storms which swept the country on 28/29 October 1989. The photograph may not be of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1890 issue THE LIFE-BELT USED BY THE CREWS OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are:- 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles