LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Boats Victory and Billows Crown
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. — On the morning of the 20th August a strong gale blew up from the south-east, with driving rain and a rough sea. As the local motor fishing boats Victory and Billows Crown were still at sea, the motor life-boat Helen...
Mo-Jo, of New Quay
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 6.10 p.m. on 29th August, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties three to four miles west of New Quay head. The IRB was launched at 6.25 in a fresh north easterly breeze...
A Small Boat (1)
On the evening of the 15th August news was received that a small boat with a man and a woman on board had been seen in difficulties, drifting with the tide through Calf Sound. The honorary secretary engaged a motor boat and went in search...
The Weather of 1886. Abridged from the Daily News, 1st January, 1887
The weather of last year was, in some respects, like a well-constructed story.
Beginning in a tame and uneventful fashion, the interest gradually increased as time wore on, until at the close of the period we were...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies: Ireland. Kilmore and Hovvth
Two new motor life-boats have been sent to the Irish coast this year: Kil- more, County Wexford, and Howth, County Dublin.
Kilmore, County Wexford.
The new motor life-boat at Kilmore has replaced a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
Obituary
It is with deep regret that we report the following deaths: February: Daniel Roach, coxswain of St Ives lifeboat from 1956 to 1967, having previously served as assistant mechanic from 1940 to 1946 and motor mechanic from 1946 to 1956. Mr...
Category: Obituaries
Atlantic College -- West Division
Situated in the medieval St. Donat's Castle, overlooking the treacherous coast between Penarth and Porthcawl, Atlantic College is a most unusual, but effective set-up - it is the only student-run RNLI station in the Britain. Rear Admiral... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Index to Advertisers
Morecambe, Lancashire D class inflatable: March 8 (twice), April 22, May 12, 28 and 30 Mudeford, Dorset Relief D class inflatable: March 8, 16 and 28 D class inflatable: March 28, April 14, 30, May 2 (twice), 16 and 18 The Mumbles, West...
Category: Index
Gazelle
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th December, 1861. THOMAS CHAPHAN, Esq., F.B.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee