LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Awards to coxswains, creiv members and shore helpers The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 1998. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations...
Category: Articles
Green Pastures
Amble, Northumberland. At 3.38 on the morning of the llth July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a red flare had been seen near Snab Point, Drudridge Bay. There was little wind and a slight sea. The tide had begun...
What and Where
What and Where The lifeboat fleet of the RNL9 If s back again by popular demand! The following is a print-out from LINCS, the RNLI's Lifeboat integrated Computer System, and is correct as of October 1999.
Lifeboats are...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Duchess of York on Board the Arbroath Motor Life-Boat
With her are the Duke of Montrose, the Lady Helen Graham (Lady-in-Waiting), Mr. Robert L. Mudie, and Commander Drury, Chief Inspector of Life-boat*.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Board the Humber Life-Boat
Left to right : Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan, Admiral Sir William Slayter; ex-Coxswain Robert Cross. - View image in PDF
(see page 487). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Undaunted
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— At 9.50 on the night of the 3rd of November, 1957, the Assistant In- spector of Irish Lights telephoned to say he had received a message from Tuskar Rock that a boat was burning flares two miles west of...
Golden Eagle
Whltehills, Banffshlre.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the life-boat's second coxswain report- ed that he had seen a fishing vessel some three miles from Whitebills apparently out of control and drifting to the shore...
Golden Island
HOLYHEAD.—During a heavy gale from the W., at 9 A.M. on the 14th October, signals of distress were reported to have been shown by two or three vessels anchored in dangerous positions in the bay. The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched, but...
Golden Hope
At 10 A.M.
on the 25th February the Coastguard at Kilkeel reported that there was a skiff apparently in difficulties and in want of assistance about five miles off.
Within ten minutes of the message being...