LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Sep 7,16, Dec 12,23 D-470:Nov 27,Dec 12,27 D-536:Sep 3,7,Oct 5,22, Nov 17 ABERDOVEY B-758:Aug21,28(x2),29(x4), 30(x2) Sep 1,14,Oct 16,Nov 12 ABERSOCH B-590:Sep 16 B-790:Sep 18,25 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Sep 1,7,9,Oct 1,9,...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1899
Jan. 4.—Five men put off in a boat at night and rescued the crew of seven men from the fishing - boat Mary Anderson, of Broughty Ferry, which had stranded off Arbroath, For- farshire, in a strong S.W. gale and a rough sea.
Category: Articles
News
neWs the latest launches, live! the rescue stories you read in the Lifeboat are but a handful of the thousands of RnLi lifeboat launches undertaken every year. now, the RnLi desktop pager allows computer users to keep up to date with every...
Category: Articles
Classified Advertisements
Classified Advertisements Wordage: £5.50 per single column centimetre {minimum charge £16.50. NB: The minimum of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm). With illustration: £12 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...
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Services by Shore-Boats (7)
TORBAY, DEVON. At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea.
The crew of three were seen clinging to the keel. The call...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, Tor the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
founded in 1824.—Supported Try Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Category: Services
Louis Sheid and Tajandoen
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
Greathead's Original Life-Boat
AT a time when great and, we trust, successful efforts are making to improve our life-boats, it is but right to put on record some facts connected with the first life-boat ever used in this country, the credit of which belongs to HENRY...
Category: Articles
Dijon and Peebles
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...