LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services June July and August 1980
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: July 31 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 25, July 18, 20, 28, 29 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 18, 20, 24, August 1,6 (twice), 12 (twice), 18 and 31 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class...
Category: Services
Norwegian Life-Boat Anniversary
by Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.
Deputy Chairman of the Institution.
This is the second part of Commander Szoann's article. In this issue he deals with his subsequent visit to...
Category: Articles
Gay Fiesta
AIDED CATAMARAN Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.50 p.m.
on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Gay Fiesta had reported that she was lost in Cardigan Bay and that a helicopter was...
Services to Foreign Vessels In 1920
IN his address at the Annual Meeting, the Prince of Wales referred to the number of services to foreign vessels performed during 1920, and said that there was " no nation possessing a coast- line and any ships which had not benefited at...
Category: Services
John Bull
DE C . 8 T H . - TORBAY, DEVON. At 9 A.M. a message was received that the motor fishing boat John Bull, of Torquay, which had gone to sea the previous morning, had not returned. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 9.45 A.M....
News from the Branches
THK ton highest remittances received from Branches during the year 1st October, 1919, to 30th September, 1920, are JIB follows:— ±. (/ City of London Liverpool Bradford .
Manchester .
Glasgow...
Category: Branches
Just Because a Lifeboat Has Not Reached Her New Home
Just because a lifeboat has not reached her new home and been officially put on station does not stop her being a lifeboat, as these two photographs show.
The Severn class allocated to Harwich on the east coast was taking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (22)
JULY 13TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but all its crew were lost and six bodies were picked up by fishing boats. - Rewards, £6 18s. (See St. Abbs, “Services by Shoreboats,” page 61.)...
Life-Boat Saturday and "Life-Boat Sunday." Recent Demonstrations
WE earnestly appeal to all interested in the Life-boat cause to do their utmost to establish or help to establish a " Life- boat Saturday" and a " Life-boat Sunday " in the neighbourhoods in which they reside. A good...
Category: Articles
Covering the Atlantic Coast
The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...
Category: Articles