LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Naming of the 52Ft Relief Lifeboat Dwctoso/Ken/
THE PERFECT SUNNY AFTERNOON of Tu6Sday April 27 seemed to take on extra brightness when Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at the Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, to name the relief 52ft Arun lifeboat Duchess of Kent....
Category: Articles
Life-Boats at Sea for 66 Hours
AT twenty-five minutes past midnight •on the 26th January, 1954, a Washington aircraft of R.A.F. Bomber Command, bound for the Azores, wirelessed that she was in difficulties through icing and that her crew of seven were baling out. The...
Category: Services
The Russian Fish Factory Vessel Robert Eykhe
AMBULANCE CALL WHEN on 16th January, 1972, a Russian fish factory ship, anchored 30 miles west of Guernsey, requested assistance to take off a sick man requiring hospital treatment, the St. Peter Port, Guernsey, life-boat went...
Lady Theresa
Four rescued EARLY ON FRIDAY, November 12, 1982, the 17ft 6in fishing boat Lady Theresa was seen leaving Redcar and, as it was a rough morning, a watch was kept on her from the lifeboathouse. At 1213 a passer by informed Coxswain David...
Notes of the Quarter
IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Presentation of Medals and Other Awards.
GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.— On 14th March a meeting was held at the Coliseum, Great Yarmouth, at which the Mayor presided, supported by Mr.
A. H. Cartwright,...
Category: Branches
L.M.B.E. Company Ltd
BOAT WINDSCREENS ! AND WINDOW SPECIALISTS Manufacturers of brass and alloy windscreens to the Royal National Life-boat Institution and boatbuilders.
All types of boat screens and windows- Sliding, opening, half drop, fixed...
Category: Advertisement
Book Reviews
A director of Shire Publications at Tring, Hertfordshire, recently had the excellent idea that a guide book should be produced based on life-boat stations.
This company specialises in the publication of unusual guides. The...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pyrope
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
A Yacht
Broken rudder A YACHT in trouble to the south of the Calf Islands, off the southern Irish coast, was firing red flares. They were sighted and reported to the honorary secretary of Baltimore lifeboat station at 1320 on the afternoon of Friday...