LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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LIFE-BOAT CHECKS SAFETY OF YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At ten to nine on the evening of Tuesday the 20th August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the Rhyl coastguard had a small yacht...
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Atlantic 21 escort IN HIS CAPACITY as harbour master, Helmsman Roger Trigg of Southwold lifeboat station heard at 1625 on Friday January 16 that MFV Concord, a 35ft 6in ex-Liverpool class lifeboat, had broken down...
Category: Services
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
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th October, 1903.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
News from the Branches
Hull's Special Report.
AT the Annual Meeting of the Branch, held on 31st March, the Lord Mayor (Councillor Digby Willoughby), one of; the Presidents of the Branch, proposed that Hull should make a special effort to...
Category: Branches
Classified Advertisements
Wordage: £5.50 per .single column centimetre (minimum charge £16.50). NB: The minimum space of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm.
With illustration: £12 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...
Category: Advertisement
New for Old
1998 saw two historic lifeboats return to the water - and both most appropriately in the area where they served as active lifeboats.
At Beinhridge the Coxswain of the current lifeboat Martin Woodward, saw years of tenacity...
Category: Articles
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...
IRB Launches (2)
SOUTHERN DISTRICT Eastney, Hampshire - At 3.10 p.m.
on i4th May, 1966, a member of the IRB crew informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off the Royal Marine Barracks. At 3.15 the IRB was launched...
Category: Services
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles reviews the past year ...and the ones to come There have been a number of recent events which have made me more aware than usual of the Institution's continuing responsibility to provide a lifeboat service to the...
Category: Articles