Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 7th May, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht, with a crew cf two, off Marske appeared to have broken her top mast. There was a westerly gale with a...
The following additional life-boat services took place in May and August, 1969: No. 4 Life-boat Area Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 1.12 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Benacre...
Category: Services
(right) Sir Charles McGrigor, Convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, and Miss Lloyd Jones on February 9 visited Ardrossan ladies' guild, this year awarded a vellum by the Council. From 1960 to 1976 its annual totals have risen from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Lifeboat revisited I read with interest the news article 'Reunited in New Zealand' featured in the Winter 1995/96 issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
The reference to Greymouth caught my eye. This was where my daughter Julie...
Category: Correspondence
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 10th day of April, 1856, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy-Chairman of the Institution, and Chairman of Lloyd's Register...
Category: Annual Reports
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.23 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing boat Cameo with a man and a boy on board was overdue from Langstone harbour. She had left the...
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EIGHT new motor life-boats were named during the summer of 1949, two on the English coast, at Swanage and East- bourne, three on the Welsh coast, at New Quay (Cardigan), Barmouth, and Porthdinllaen, two in Northern Ireland, at Portrush and...
Category: Inaugurations
Aberdeen, Grampian July 28.
Aith, Shetland August 8.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk July 11.
Amble, Northumberland June 12, 13 and August 9.
Angle, Dyfed July 17 and...
Category: Services