LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
May Lily
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from Flamborough that the fishing boat May Lily, of Scarborough, with a crew of four, was in distress...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 28th January, 1921.
Sir GODFREY BABING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— COVENT GARDEN LIFE-BOAT £• *• d.
FUND (per Mr. B....
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXI.—ST. DAVID'S.
Augusta, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars The Augusta was stationed at St. David's in 1869 her cost being subscribed by the Earl of Dart- mouth's tenantry in Staffordshire and...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GOURDON, SCOTLAND.—On the 5th Nov.
last the new Life-boat recently provided for this station was publicly inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. The village was gaily decorated for the occasion, streamers of flags...
Category: Articles
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Tenby -- West Division Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, has one of the longest slipways in the country, its 360ft extending from the boathouse off Castle Hill into deep water. The...
Category: Articles
Marine Print,
A SUPERB SET OF FOUR BEAUTIFULLY LIMITED TO A VERY LOW 250 IMPRESSIONS SIGNED A EACH PRINT IS MOUNTED AND FRAMED IN A BEAUTIFUL THE BATTLE OF QUIBERON BAY EACH BEAUTIFUL PRINT IS LIMITED TO ONLY 250 ARTIST SIGNED DETAILED INFORMATION OF...
Category: Advertisement
Stormy Stan's Sea Tales
There are around 2().(XH) members of Slonn Force, the RNLl's club for the under 16s. The club's exclusive magazine. Storm Force News, is full of exciting competitions, puzzles, salty sea talcs, jokes and cartoons - it also lends...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Relief - Trent class Henry Heys Duckworth St Helier lifeboat station played host for the naming ceremony of a relief Trent class lifeboat on the afternoon of 28 April 1996. In weather conditions which made it feel as though it was mid-Summer...
Category: Inaugurations
Radio-Telephony In Life-Boats
AN article by my predecessor on the use of wireless in life-boats appeared in the number of this journal for December, 1937. It was then eleven years since the Institution had begun its experiments with wireless by installing a...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE PROTOTYPE of a new lifeboat to bridge the gap between the smaller offshore lifeboats and the Atlantic 21 ILB is under construction. Among the requirements for the new boat listed by the RNLI's Executive Committee were that it should...
Category: Articles