LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Realf
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Dooey, Co. Donegal.—The institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum and £2 to each of two men, Mr. John...
Category: Services
The Maer Rocks Rescue
AT 9.49 on the night of the 19th of September, 1954, the honorary secre- tary of the Exmouth station, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, was told by the coast- guard that a flashing light had been seen near the Maer Rocks at the approach...
Category: Services
Duchess of Leith
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
Modern Lifeboat Equipment
PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. J. L. Tillett, a leading member of the Norwich Round Table (which paid for the IRB at Happisburgh) is a jeweller by trade. He made some delightful miniature badges depicting a life-boat, in gold and colour, which were sold at the Norfolk...
Category: Donations
Leon Jeannine
Stranded fishing vessel GALE FORCE southerly winds were blowing and heavy seas breaking in the bay when, on the evening of Monday November 26,1984, the honorary secretary of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station was informed by Ramsey coastguard...
Travel Offers
Free Hotel Accommodation all year round For only £2995 you and a partner can STAY FREE as often as you like for 12 months Treat yourself to a break whenever you choose, wherever you choose - as often as you choose. With the Travel...
Category: Advertisement
Gallant and Humane Conduct of Swedes and Norse-Men
DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 23rd May, at Willis's Booms, his GRACE THE DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.
The Chairman observed that it had been well...
Category: Meetings