LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Coble Onward
OCT. 4TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.45 A.M. the Craster coastguard reported that the motor fishing coble Onward was disabled a mile off the harbour. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
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The Irish Steamer Kerrymore
NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 12.55 in the morning the watchman reported rockets and flares from a ship between South Shear Buoy and Tuskar, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A southerly...
Empire Daffodil
JANUARY 21ST. - ABERDEEN. At 10.25 A.M. Findon coastguard reported a vessel two miles S. by E. flying a distress signal, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at 10.45 A.M. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy...
S.S. Sard
FEBRUARY 20TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 4.55 A.M. the Tara coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore in Knockinelder Bay, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 6 A.M. A light south-easterly wind was blowing, with a...
A Year of Exceptional Achievement for RNLI
— Annual Meeting Report APACKED Central Hall, Westminster, heard Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, report on 20th April, 1966, that never had the life-boat service, in all...
Category: Meetings
The Annual Meetings '99
A year in the life of the KNLI… The RNLH's anniversary year annual meetings were held at the Barbican on 1j May 1999.
As well as 'Pfiviunt'pf a review of another hii' successful year Chairman David Acland...
Category: Meetings
Annual Meeting
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 114 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 62 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1933 63,299 Annual Meeting.
THE hundred and ninth annual...
Category: Meetings
A Beach Punt
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — One of the beach pants belonging to Sonthwold was engaged in shipping pilots during a strong breeze on the 4th April, and at 1.30 A.M., the wind haying freshened to a gale, and a heavy sea breaking on the shoals,...
The French Dandy Henri et Helene
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.-—At 8 A.M. on the 17th April, blowing hard from E.N.E., in consequence of signals of distress from the French dandy Henri et Helene, of Nantes, the Life-boat Covent Garden went out of the river and placed a pilot and 2...
Reliance
CULLERCOATS.—On the 20th November the Reliance fishing-coble, which had gone out at 4 A.M. for the purpose either of piloting or fishing, was returning to the harbour at about 9.30, by which time the sea had much increased, and it was...