LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Visiting Lifeboats came to Poole on passage to or from Jersey from West Germany and the Netherlands
THE WEST GERMAN lifeboat Eiswette visited Poole on May 30 and 31 before sailing to Jersey for St Helier lifeboat station's centenary celebrations on June 1 and 2. While in Poole, Carl Max Vater, vice-chairman, and other senior officials...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT BUMPS OVER SAND TO STRANDED YACHT Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 2nd j January 1900 the Life-boat John Robert ' was launched at 1.45 A.M., rockets and guns having been fired from the Barrels Bock Light-vessel. A light S.E. wind was blowing at the time, the sea was moderate...
Category: Services
Small Ads
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Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
Category: Services
Noorderkroon
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 12.45 P-m- on J4tn July, 1966, news was received, that the Dutch trawler Noorderkroon, of Scheveningen, had a mine on board. H.M.S. Belton had put ratings aboard to secure the mine. The honorary secretary...
Ceremonies
Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...
Category: Inaugurations
Concern for Comfort
BACKPAIN t ARTHRITIS t HIATUS HERNIA The Concern for Comfort Adjustable Bed has proved to be a boon to sufferers of a wide variety of medical conditions.
If you are troubled by: • arthritis/rheumatism • poor circulation •...
Category: Advertisement
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1858
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th Nov. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Category: Committee