LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
Special Life-Boat Funds
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.
Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS. K.G.
Vice-Patrons— The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF Ripon, K.O.
The Right Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,...
Category: Accounts
Boy Bill
Margate, Kent.—At 12.55 in the after- noon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coast- guard reported that a rowing boat, the Boy Bill, of Westgate, with one man on board, was drifting seawards one and a half miles to the north-west, and the motor...
The Early Days Recalled
TWO former operational staff were instrumental in convincing the RNLI of the need to introduce inflatables into the fleet. Lt David Stogdon, an inspector of lifeboats and later Superintendent of Cowes Base, where he led the design and...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent at Plymouth and Padstow
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations
Lebu
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—During a severe gale on the 20th October the barque Lebu, of Liverpool, at anchor about five miles from Douglas Head, hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the Douglas No. 2 Life-boat, the John Turner Turner...
Pilot Star (1)
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Victoria and Atomic Star
HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.40 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1947, the fishing boat Victoria was seen approaching harbour with the seine-net motor fishing boat Atomic Star in...
Gay Star, of Castletown
Margate, Kent - At 4.43 p.m. on 26th September, 1967, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in difficulties with a fouled propeller six miles north east of the North Foreland lighthouse. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service...