LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...
Category: Meetings
The Converted Naval Pinnace Doris
Night search TWO RED FLARES sighted by the Coastguards at Gorleston and Happisburgh at 0259 on Sunday, October 21, 1973, were reported to the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston honorary secretary. Some ten minutes later Khami, one of the first of...
The Late George Lyall, Esq.
IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...
Category: Obituaries
The Trinity House Vessel Mermaid
TOOK PROVISIONS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Great Yarmouth asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take out provisions to the Trinity...
Signals of Distress (1)
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR, In the article headed ' Signals of Distress' in your last quarterly publication of August 1,1 find it stated that, in the first place," It is indispensable that...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Miltrap
Holy Island, Northumberland. •—• At 8.8 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, it was reported by the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress near the Plough Seat Rocks. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...
The S.S. Boadicea
In consequence of a telegram from Margate that the Tongue lightship was tiring for assistance, the Bradford Lifeboat and steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour at midnight on the 6th December, during a fresh gale from the E.N.E., with snow and a...
The Cross-Channel Steamer Dieppe, S.S. Richmere
THEBE were heavy at the end of November, and on the 26th Jes round the coast whole gale was blowing at the time, and the Motor Life-boat and two tugs put out and 27th of that month ten Life-boats to her help. Both tugs got into diffiwere...
William and The Rosa Marion
WHITBY.—At about 3 P.M. on the 11th January the wind blew a moderate gale from the E.N.E. with a heavy sea, and four fishing-cobles which had gone out in the morning were seen returning. As the wind and sea were increasing the foremost boat...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1902
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Category: Services