LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a...
Category: Articles
Right: New Year's Day Also Saw Revellers Taking the Plunge at the Annual Loony Dook
Right: New Year's Day also saw revellers taking the plunge at the annual Loony Dook in the Firth of Forth. Alice KenneCy gets a helping hand from South Queensferry lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Smithy at Gretna Green
In front of the group is one of the life-boat boxes which collected £227 in three months (See page 154). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wood Was for Hundreds of Years the Traditional Boat Building Material and a Well-Built
Wood was for hundreds of years the traditional boat building material and a well-built wooden craft is still a joy to look at. (Right) The hull of a 37ft din Rather, built of cold moulded wood, starts to take shape. The backbone structure of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, named two new life-boats in 1954. These life- boats, The Duchess of Kent and Edian Courtauld, are now on service at Fraserburgh and at Walton and Frinton.
Ten new...
Category: Inaugurations
A Manx Tale
The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...
Category: Articles
Arosa
Twelve Spanish fishermen lost their lives when their trawler sank in appalling weather off the west coast of Ireland. Just one man, 24-year-old Ricardo Garcia, was saved after the Welsh-registered Arosa hit rocks on 3 October last year..<...
Sulabassana
Yacht aground WHILE A RACE FROM ABERSOCH Was being timed into Howth Harbour at about 2330 on Saturday, August 28, 1976, the yacht Sulabassana of Holyhead, a 32' Nicholson, attempted to pass inside the buoys marking the rocks off the end...
July
Launches 40 Lives rescued 24
JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a...
Category: Services
VWebster
TEDDY BEARS PICNIC When your organisation holds its next fund raising effort at a carnival, fete, donkey derby, boat show or similar activity you can make an additional £200 in a few hours by running a Teddy Bears Picnic. No financial...
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