LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilgrimage to Fraserburgh
THE life-boat station at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, took part in a very interesting event during July—the welcome which was given to men and women from Fraserburgh living in Canada, the United States, South Africa and various places of...
Category: Articles
Mr. R. O. Hill, of Drogheda
The Clogher Head Station, Co. Louth, and the Drogheda branch, which was also a life-boat station until 1929, have lost one of their most valued sup- porters by the death of Mr. R. O. Hill.
For twenty years, from 1911 to...
Category: Obituaries
Best Wreck Service of the Year. Three Scottish Life-Saving Companies Share Prize
LIFE-SAVING Apparatus Companies in the Hebrides and the Shetland Isles share the award of the Minister of Transport's shield for the best wreck service of the year 1963-4. The shield will be held for six months by the Port Ellen and Mull...
Category: Awards
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat West Wind
No. 2 Life-boat Area (Southern Scotland, North West England and Isle of Man) EX-LIFE-BOAT SUMMONS LIFE-BOAT AN old ex-R.N.L.I, pulling and sailing life-boat now named West Wind caused the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat Herbert Leigh, which is...
Youghal:
Youghal: Mr Patrick Lineham, chairman of Youghal branch welcomes guests on Sunday July 14, 1985 to the dedication of the station's Atlantic 21 lifeboat, Marjory Turner, the first of her class to be stationed in Ireland. She was the gift... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ferry Exercise:
Ferry exercise: three lifeboat stations, Sheerness, Margate and Ramsgate, with helicopters from RAF Mansion took part in an exercise to evacuate a cross-Channel ferry on January 13 (right). The Sally Line ferry, made specially available by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Yachts
Vellum service LAST QUARTER'S issue of THE LIFEBOAT reported a service on May 25, 1986 by Ramsey lifeboat to three yachts in trouble at the end of Isle of Man's round the island race. The three yachts were towed one after the other...
Whaler Diana, of Hull
On the 19th Oct., during one of the worst gales experienced on this coast for years, the steam-whaler Diana, of Hull, was observed stranded on the Slate Run. The wind was blowing a perfect hurricane from the north at the time. The life-boat...
Medical Arrangements In the Rnli (From Page 83)
(from page 83) provided for inshore lifeboats or for conventional lifeboats, with the exception of 70' boats, but that the subject should be kept under review. This duty is now undertaken by the Medical and Survival Committee which...
Category: Articles
The Screw Steamer Akaba
Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...