LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Naming of Rnlb Ann Ritchie Oban
ON SATURDAY May 7 a damp, overcast morning overshadowed the preparations at Oban for the naming ceremony of the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station. As the time of the ceremony drew nearer, however, the weather improved and a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., R.N.
FROM the moment that Her Majesty's fine frigate the Galatea* left our shores in the spring of last year, under the command of the youthful Duke of Edinburgh, to visit our colonies in the southern hemisphere, and to convey to them in...
Category: Articles
Edith and Margaret Ann (1)
Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...
George and Ann, of Cardigan
A severe gale was experienced at Peterhead, N.B., on the 22nd September, and two heavily-laden fishing-boats which had been proceeding northward made for the harbour. One, being more to the southward, was enabled to sail wi^h.j-her bow to...
The Ketches F. H. Bolt and Anne, and Crabbers St. Eloi, Susanne Yvonne, etc
ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
A Fire Service Inflatable
CAMARTHEM, October 19, 1987: Crew members of Tenby's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat crew found themselves afloat several miles from the sea when they were called in by police and coastguards to help with flood relief at Camarthen,...
A Yacht Club Visits the Walmer Station
LAST December Coxswain Frederick Upton of Walmer gave a talk to the Thames Motor Yacht Club, and at the end of the month a party of over twenty members, with their ladies, visited Deal. They entertained the Mayor and Mayoress and the...
Category: Branches
Fine Joint Save at Margate
FOR the rescue of four men from the m.f.v. Jaroma, a letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to Coxswain Alfred Manning and the crew of the Margate, Kent...
Category: Services
Janet Worthington, Lady Louisa Pennant, and Crest
In response to signals of distress, the Life-boat Charley Lloyd was twice launched on the night of the 31st March last, and brought ashore the crews, numbering in all ten men, of the schooners Janet Worthington, of Buncorn, Lady Louisa...
Ann
Sundcrland, Co. Durham - At 12.47 p.m. on 4th June, 1967, news was received that a motor fishing vessel two to three miles off Sunderland was flying distress signals. At 1.6 the life-boat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers was launched in a...