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Vhp Transmitter/Receivers Are Now Very Compact and Can Be Fitted In Boats As Small As the RNLI's D Class Inflatables. This Photograph of the First Atlantic 75 Rigid

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

VHP transmitter/receivers are now very compact and can be fitted in boats as small as the RNLI's D class inflatables. This photograph of the first Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable clearly shows the aerial mounted on the mast aft - as high as... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S. Watkins F. Nisbet

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 6TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Watkins F. Nisbet, of St. Catherines, Ontario, had gone ashore off Llanddwyn Island, but nine- teen of her crew of twenty were rescued from the shore by the Holyhead Company of the...

The S.S. Africa Occidental

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Ramsgate, Kent. — At 6.45 on the evening of the 20th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had fired guns to warn a vessel approaching the Sands.

A few minutes later the vessel...

The Auxiliary Yawl Sheenan

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.56 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yawl was making distress signals about two and a half miles to the eastward, and at 4.45 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at...

The Thurso Caithness Life-Boat Pentland (Civil Service No 31) Heading for Scrabster on the North Coast of Scotland With the Upturned Longhope Orkney Life-Boat TGB

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

The Thurso, Caithness, life-boat Pent/and (Civil Service No. 31) heading for Scrabster on the north coast of Scotland with the upturned Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B. in tow. The photograph was taken on 18th March, 1969, by a Shackleton... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Jubilee, of Preston

Date: February 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 87

Three days afterwards the same Life- boat was also the means of rescuing the crew of 4 men from the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, which, during foggy weather, stranded on the north end of the Horse Bank. When the crew were brought ashore by...

Annual Report. 1890

Date: May 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 156

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1890, His Grace The DUKE OF FIFE, K.T., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...

Category: Annual Reports

The Life-Boat Service In 1929

Date: March 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 301

THE year 1929 was remarkable for the series of intense gales in its last three months, following on an autumn of prolonged drought. The gales are de- scribed on another page. Here it is sufficient to say that during the ninety- two days of...

Category: Articles

Anna, of Rensburgh

Date: August 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 101

ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—As one of the congregations of this town were coming out of church on the evening of the 26th March, the signal gun was fired to summon the crew of the Life-boat Admiral Fitzroy. The schooner Anna, ofRensburgh, had been...

The Coningbeg Lightvessel

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 6.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had wire- lessed that she had a sick man on board.

So at 7.3 the life-boat Ann...