LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
What Happens to Old Life-Boats?
SOMETIMES the story is put about that the R.N.L.I. is in the habit of burning life-boats which have been involved in accidents. The truth of the matter is that on a few occasions in the past, when life-boat hulls have been wrecked beyond...
Category: Articles
Cygnus
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th July, 1967, a message was received that a i7-foot cabin cruiser which had been taken from her moorings during theprevious night had been sighted with a youth on board three miles...
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Ceremony
TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.
There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...
Category: Meetings
Here and There
Like father, like son A remarkable and honourable tradition is being carried on in the Keay family of Grayburn, near Invergowrie.
Captain T. A. Colin Keay is a member of the Committee of Management and chairman of Dundee...
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The Fundraisers
Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...
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Marlene Dorlores
A FOUR HOURS' SEARCH Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.24 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, the coastguard reported distress signals about five miles south-by-west of the station. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 5.45 in...
Ina, of Blyth
Blyth, Northumberland. — At about 11.50 A.M. on the 8th December, 1937, it was reported to the coxswain that the motor fishing boat Ina, of Blyth, with a. crew of two, was out fishing.
The weather had got worse since she...
Glenwood
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.15 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor barge needed help one mile north-east of the North Knob buoy. At 11.36 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Teddy Bear
Walmer, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Teddy Bear, which was two miles east of the Goodwin Fork buoy, had engine trouble and her crew...
Brawlass
Barrow, Lancashire. At 8.38 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the Walney coastguard reported seeing red flares about three miles west-north- west of the look-out. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 8.55 in a calm sea with...