LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Tht figures refer to the number* of the Life-loatt detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 135. Dixon, Miss Anne, 45. Ionian, E. Esq., 179. Pooley, G. Esq.., the late, 265, A Lady, 16. Rixon, Miss, 249. lonourable...
Category: Donations
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1979
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 2 (twice), 15, July 12, 22 (twice), 26, 28, 29, August 15, 26 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 22, 27, July 21, 30, August 2 (twice), 7, 9, 16, 23 and 26 Aberystwyth, Dyfed July 6, 29, August 19 and 29 Aldeburgh, Suffolk...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
A MAJOR new boat building programme was decided upon by the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, at its February meeting. As anA Sister's Thanks The following is an extract from a letter received by Captain J. B. Jones, O.B.E.,...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months September, October, and November, 1971
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND ILBs 1st September 1971 to 30th November 1971: Launches 1,535, lives saved 285 THE ACTIVE FLEET 138 station life-boats (as at 30/11/71) 36 inshore life-boats operating in the winter LIVES RESCUED 94...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Kilmore lifeboat was capsized twice. One member of the crew, Finton Sinnott, lost his life.
This sad accident caused the first loss of life following the capsize of one of the RNLI's lifeboats since...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medal for a Brave Irish Boy
As our readers know, the Institution makes awards for all rescues or attempted rescues of those in peril from shipwreck round the coasts of the United Kingdom, whether the rescues are performed by the Life-boat crews themselves or by private...
Category: Medals
The 35' Sloop Snowgoose
Single-handed sloop A RED FLARE was observed about three miles west of Needles Coastguard lookout at 1240 on Tuesday, October 5,1976.
A helicopter from HMS Daedalus, Leeon- Solent, took off to investigate and at 1300 found...
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Man in water THE MUMBLES COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Atlantic College, St Donat's Castle, lifeboat station at 0948 on Sunday May 24, 1981, to inform him that a man had been reported in the water off Witches Point,...
Setantii
Yacht knocked down AFTER FINISHING a cruiser race in gale force winds, the 25ft yacht Setantii set out from Port St Mary on the morning of Monday August 30, 1982, to return to her home port of Fleetwood; she had a crew of three. Gale force...
Bacchus
Rescue from the Rocks RED FLARES sighted in a position one and a half miles south east of St Helier, Jersey, were reported to the deputy launching authority of the St Helier Station by a member of the public at8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September...