LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Retirement of Commander T. Holmes, R.N.
IT is with great regret that we have to announce the retirement, under the age limit, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, on completing twenty-seven years' service, and we feel sure that our regret will...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Model register Thank you for printing my letter in the Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the heading of Model Register.
The response to my letter has meant that we now have sufficient numbers to form a group of lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
Some Ways of Raising Money
Fund raisers on the Isle of Anglesey stepped up their efforts last year and increased their income from £ 1 1 .(XX) in 1977 to £15,(XX) in 1978. Part of this increase was made possible by the gift of two water colours painted and...
Category: Donations
Life-Boat Gear and Its Stowage
AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.
Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services
POUNDING SEAS BREAK FISHING VESSEL IN HALF Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1959
5 Shoreham Harbour .. S.S. Panaghia Date 1959 Jan.
Feb.
1 Humber 1 Dungeness 1 Hastings 1 Newcastle, Co. Down 2 Poole 2 Arranmore 3 Margate 4 Moelfre 4 Stornoway 6 Barra Island 7 Yarmouth, I.o.W...
Category: Services
Fishermen and the War
" FISHERMEN are regarded as a reserve for the Navy." So runs a circular of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries which, soon after the passing of the Military Service Act, was sent out to all seaports and fishing centres on our...
Category: Articles
A Bronze Medal Service at Moelfre
ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...
Category: Services
Maid of the Harbour
Casualties as pleasure boat collides with landing craft Poole's 33ft Brede and Boston Whaler lifeboats were called to a major emergency inside Poole Harbour on 26 June 1988.
Maid of the Harbour, a large pleasure craft...