LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...
Category: Articles
COMMUNITY NEWS
A roaring success
The Bikers Cove, neighbours and friends of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a custom bike show at the end of July – and it was certainly a 'triumph'. Over 400 bikers from all over...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
East Division MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: Aug 1 Relief D class: Sept 8 D class: Oct22 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3, 10 and 12 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 4,12, 23, 25 and 27 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: Aug 13,...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
August, September and October 1996 Aberdeen, Grampian Arun: Aug 9, Sep 12, and Oct 23 D class: Oct 19 and 22 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 2 (twice), 4 (five times), 10, 13, 21, Sep 11, 23, Oct 4, 5 (twice), and 31 Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Ruth
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 13th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that a man and his young son had not returned to Paddy's Hole as expected from a fishing trip. At 6.48 the life-boat...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 1st January, 1863. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Pleasant Mirth
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 11.50 on the night of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man living in Marston had reported that a yacht appeared to be in a very dangerous position off Blakeney Point. The...
Lerwick: After Standing By the Listing Fred Everard All Night on Her Slow Progress Towards Lerwick Through Gale Force Winds As the List Increased the 52' Barnett Relief L
Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs