LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor My father and I witnessed the whole incident reported in ‘Between a rock and an angry sea’ in the LifeboatWinter...
Category: Correspondence
Mary Jane
About 8.15 P.M.
on the 8th September, the schooner Mary Jane, of Lancaster, made signals of distress. For two days she had been lying at anchor near Puffin Island in an unsuitable berth, and on the 8th the S.W. wind...
The Converted Ship's Boat Judorka
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.52 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the converted ship's boat Judorka of Swansea had not returned to her berth in the...
The S.S. Doriefs
APPENDICITIS PATIENT Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m.
on 4th January, 1964, a ship's agent in Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S. Doriefs of Monrovia had on board a sick man suffering from...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1929
THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar for the forthcoming year. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Lifeboat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
COVERACK, CORNWALL.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Coverack, where there is an active body of fisher- men, with a view to rendering assist- ance in case of wrecks on the Manacle Rocks, not far from...
Category: Articles
Sick Man Taken In Gale from Lightvessel
AT 7.8 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary of the Barrow, Lancashire, lifeboat station, Mr. T. Downing, was told by the Superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Holyhead that a member of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Lifeboat People
In support of the City of Edinburgh lifeboat appeal to fund a 47ft Tyne class lifeboat for Fraserburgh, The Lord and Lady Provost of Edinburgh visited Fraserburgh on April 13 and were taken afloat in the station's present lifeboat, the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was...
Category: Services
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