LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-Boat for Fraserburgh
A VERY interesting ceremony took place at Fraserburgh on the 4th August, when the new Motor Life-boat, the Lady Rothes, presented to the Institution by Mr. T. Dyer Edwardes, was named and launched in the presence of some thousands of...
Category: Inaugurations
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of this excellent Society was held at the 22nd of May last, Captain the Hon the unavoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society. Amongst those present on the occasion were...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services (1)
LIFEBOAT SERVICES AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1993 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON W50: Aug 20, Oct 10 and 18 D class Oct 8 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 19, 25, Sept 3 and 7 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2,12 (twice), 15 Sept 4...
Category: Services
Wreck Ashore
Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....
Category: Articles
Glad to be safe
Bridlington, Humberside, saw north westerly winds and heavy showers on Sunday 29 August, conditions that tempted a couple of windsurfers to Fraisthorpe Beach but then one lost his board ...
Following a report that a man...
Category: Articles
Heart and soul
In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
[WE resume our Reports, which bad been unavoidably postponed, of the Services of the Life-boats of the Institution.] TENET, :SOUTH WALES.—On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to...
Category: Services
Foreign Lifeboat Services. I
WE have, for some years past, noted from time to time the progress of the Life-boat Organizations in other coun- tries which have established a Service of this character, whether under the State or, as in our case, on a voluntary basis. In...
Category: Services
The Bradford Exchange.
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Category: Advertisement
Services by Shore-Boats (5)
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...
Category: Services