LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1980
Aberdovey, Gwynedd April 14, May 4 and 5 Abersoch, Gwynedd April 9 and May 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 10, 12, May 4 and 16 Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire April 26 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan March 3, May 18 and 26 Bangor, Co Down May 3...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Kilmore lifeboat was capsized twice. One member of the crew, Finton Sinnott, lost his life.
This sad accident caused the first loss of life following the capsize of one of the RNLI's lifeboats since...
Category: Articles
Zetland
The 200th anniversary of Henry Greathead's Original, THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1990, aroused considerable interest, and we continue the story of early lifeboats with a brief history of Greathead's only survivor... Zetland Henry...
Category: Articles
Learning the Ropes
Many people imagine that the average RNLI crew member is a selfless, brave, experienced mariner. Crew members are certainly brave and selfless but, today, volunteers with a professional maritime background are in the...
Category: Articles
Stephen Whittle Coxswain of Dunmore East Lifeboat By Ray Kipling
DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
Category: Articles
Lights and Lighthouses
HAVING in our last number described the buildings and floating vessels from which beacon lights are exhibited, we have now to give some account of the nature and history of the lights themselves.
At a very remote period,...
Category: Articles
Index to Advertisers
Birds Eye Foods Boat World (Publications) Brooke Marine Ltd L. J. Bushnell & Partners Champion (Plugs) Cleghorn Waring & Co. (Pumps) Ltd Coastal Radio Ltd Cogswell & Harrison Ltd Evett Sailwear Ltd Fairey Marine Group Fleetworks...
Category: Index
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 7th July, 1916.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read and confirmed the minutes oi the...
Category: Committee
Stavroula
Nine seamen rescued from coaster stranded on sandbank in heavy swellA service by Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the...