LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swiftsure, of Fraserburgh
Life-boat 70-002 at Ullapool - At 6 a.m. on ist February, 1967, a fisherman told the coxswain that a fishing boat had struck a rock in the vicinity of Gruisard Bay and was being towed towards Ullapool.
Although the crew...
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1987
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Relief 52ft Arun: August 24 and 31 D class inflatable: September 7 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 1. 3, 11 and 12. 17, 28 (twice), October 5 and 25 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 16, 24,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1877
DUNDEE.—On the 5th October, it having been reported that a barque was ashore on the Abertay Sands, the Buddon- ness Life-boat Eleanora, and the English Mechanic Life-boat stationed at Broughty Ferry, proceeded to the sands and found the...
Category: Services
Stormy Stan Says...
Stormy Stan, the hero of 'Storm Force', the RNLI's club for the under-16s, appears regularly in the club's magazine Storm Force News. Here is a taster of the tales he spins and the advice he gives to young...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Samuel Cunningham of Portrush.
He was appointed coxswain in July 1946, having been second coxswain since January 1937 apart from a period of six years when he was away on war service...
Category: Articles
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—On the appli- cation of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat Establishment at Giles' Quay, on the north side of Dundalk Bay, it having been considered that a Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Diagrams to Illustrate the Use of the Lights Carried By Vessels at Sea
And the manner in which they indicate to the vessel which sees them the position and 1 description of the vessel that carries them.
When both Red and Green Lights are seen: A. sees a red and green light ahead ;—A, knows...
Category: Articles