LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When Dr Donald Coggan Archbishop of Canterbury and His Wife Paid An Informal Visit to Whitstable Ilb Station on July 27 They Went Out In the Atlantic 21 and His Gr
When Dr Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife paid an informal visit to Whitstable ILB station on July 27, they went out in the Atlantic 21 and His Grace took the wheel.
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Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
April Meeting.
Benbecula, Western Isles.—At about 8.30 P.M. on the 24th September, 1937, during a flowing tide, three men tried to cross South Ford to South Uist in a horse trap, but half-way across the horse got into...
Category: Services
Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
Inshore Lifeboat Services for December 1974 January and February 1975
Aberystwyth, Dyfed January 3.
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan February 1 and 2.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd December 8.
Broughty Ferry, Angus December 2.
Eastney, Hampshire...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for August, September and October 1997 Aberdeen. Grampian Arun: Aug 8. 16 and Oct 4 D Class: Aug 7, 8, 10,16 and 17 (three times) Aberdovey Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2. 14. 15.26.
30, 6...
Category: Services
The Reports of the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society for 1889 and 1890
THESE reports contain matter of very considerable general interest, showing, as they do, what has been and is being done to perfect the system of weather forecasts in this our ever-changing climate, as well as to compile a register of the...
Category: Articles
Silver Medal for Irish Coxswain
FOR an outstanding service following a call to a ten-year-old boy who was seriously ill Coxswain Philip Byrne of Arranmore has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry.
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th November,...
Category: Medals
Carillion, of Cowes (1)
RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.
At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 96 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 53 times and rescued 15 lives.
t [BOAT FOUND AFTER MESSAGE FROM HELICOPTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.25 on the morning of 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at...
Category: Services
Scotland Community News
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Photos: The Press and Journal, RNLI/(Buckie, Longhope, Mary Harris)
Local stations mark 50th...
Category: Articles