LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pet, of Chester
Thurso.
Shortly before 10 P.M. on 18th March the news reached Thurso that a schooner, the Pet, of Chester, had gone ashore on the rocky headland of Brims Ness, five miles away. The night was foggy and very dark, with a...
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st March to 31st May: Launches 359, lives saved 156 MARCH SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.8 a.m. on 4th March, 1966, a message was received that the tanker Blandford had...
Category: Services
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles
(Above Right) 44Ft Waveney the White Rose of Yorkshire In Whitby Harbour: She Was Named In May 1975 By Hrh the Duchess of Kent Who Went Out for a Trial Run
(Above, right) 44ft Waveney The White Rose of Yorkshire in Whitby Harbour: She was named in May 1975 by HRH The Duchess of Kent, who went out for a trial run after the ceremony.
photograph by courtesy of J. P... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ramsgate: After Naming Ralph and Joy Swann Hrh the Duchess of Kent and Commander Swann (l) Embarked for a Run Out to Sea In the 44' Wa\Eney Class Lifeboat Ph
Ramsgate: After naming Ralph and Joy Swann, HRH The Duchess of Kent and Commander Swann (/.) embarked for a run out to sea in the 44' Wa eney class lifeboat.
photographs by courtesy of (left) A. E. Turner and (below) J.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Taking Shipwrecked Persons from a Wreck, and Their Stowage In a Life-Boat
As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1952
THE first of the life-boat broadcasts in 1952 was in Children's Hour, on the 25th of January. It was in a series called " I'm Proud of My Father,' and the narrator was Miss May New- lands, daughter of Coxswain Duncan...
Category: Articles
Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
Category: Articles
One Event to Which People In and Around Narbeth Look Forward Each Year Is Narbeth Branch's Fork Supper the Queen's Hall Is Decorated With Flowers In Rnli Colours
One event to which people in and around Narbeth look forward each year is Narbeth branch's fork supper. The Queen's Hall is decorated with flowers in RNLI colours, flags, silhouette ships and lighthouses and even seagulls, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
November
Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...
Category: Services