LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
DUNGARVON. — A life-boat station has been established at Dungarvon, in County Waterford, and a 30 ft., single-banked, selfrighting boat, on the Institution's plan, together with a good carriage, has been provided by the Society, a good...
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Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the evening of the 22nd of October, 1959, the district nurse told the honorary secret- ary that the daughter of the life-boat coxswain had appendicitis and asked for the life-boat to land the child at Rossaveal pier,...
A Converted Ship's Boat and a Fishing Boat
New Brighton, Cheshire. At noon on the 31st of August, 1958, the motor mechanic's wife told the coxswain that a message had been received that a motor launch was in difficulties north of Seacombe stage. At 12.30 the life- boat Norman B....
Some Members of Oxton and Claughton Rnli Branch
Some members of Oxton and Claughton RNLI branch, Merseyside, before the start of a 'cheap and cheerful evening' at which they raised £444.
Since the branch was reformed in 1978 it has been responsible for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coming from As Far Afield As Ireland and Humberside
Coming from as far afield as Ireland and Humberside, 116 entries made the third Great Tweed Raft Race a huge crowd puller with 15,000 people lining the river bank. There were two categories: fancy dress rafts and speedsters, all of which had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 1.36 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small open boat with two occupants was flying dis- tress signals a mile and a half-mile south of Mumbles Head...
The Keel Boats Endeavour, Queen Venture and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.45 P-m- on 29th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there were three keel boats still at sea in conditions that were exceptionally bad and getting worse. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Naming Ceremonies: Scotland. St. Abbs, Fraserburgh, Eyemouth and Portpatrick
FOUR new motor life-boats, two of them gifts from Scotland, were named on the Scottish coast this year, at St. Abbs, Berwickshire ; Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; Eyemouth, Berwick- shire ; and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.
St....
Category: Inaugurations
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1979
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 2 (twice), 15, July 12, 22 (twice), 26, 28, 29, August 15, 26 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 22, 27, July 21, 30, August 2 (twice), 7, 9, 16, 23 and 26 Aberystwyth, Dyfed July 6, 29, August 19 and 29 Aldeburgh, Suffolk...
Category: Services
The Heavy Gales of May and June Last
Also II. to some men for rescuing 2 men from a boat which was capsized by a heavy sea, on the 8th May last, off Gweedore Bar, on the coast of Donegal.
Also Silver Medal of the Institution and U to Gunner CHARLES LEESE, and...
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