LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Mostyn
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—A messenger reported that a schooner had gone on the rocks at the east side of Cemlyn Bay, at about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 28th July, during a fresh E. wind. The crew of the Life-boat Good Shepherd were at once...
The Weather of 1886. Abridged from the Daily News, 1st January, 1887
The weather of last year was, in some respects, like a well-constructed story.
Beginning in a tame and uneventful fashion, the interest gradually increased as time wore on, until at the close of the period we were...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 144 station life-boats 102 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 89,437 from the Institution's foundation in...
Category: Services
Heaving the Lead
OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...
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Our Merchant Seamen
THE Committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society have published the following additional appeal on behalf of the establishment of an Asylum or Hospital, for aged Mariners at Belvedere, near Gravesend.
A...
Category: Committee
Life-Belts for Fishermen
IN 1882 the Committee of the Institution, being deeply impressed with the serious loss of life from drowning taking place year by year from the Fishing Vessels working to and from the coasts of the United Kingdom, decided, with the hope of...
Category: Articles
After the Agm of Newport Shropshire Branch the Honorary Treasurer a D Arnold Handed a Cheque for £1000 to Glyn Williams Dos (Wales) Also In the Picture Ar
After the AGM of Newport, Shropshire, branch, the honorary treasurer, A. D.
Arnold, handed a cheque for £1,000 to Glyn Williams, DOS (Wales). Also in the picture are Or A. R. Snead, branch chairman, and Mrs Y. M. Jones... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Members of the Mumbles Crew Meet Dan a Colussy President of Pan American World Airways Which Flew Them to New York to Take Part (Right) In the Harbo
(Below) Members of The Mumbles crew meet Dan A. Colussy, President of Pan American World Airways which flew them to New York to take part (right) in the Harbor Festival. (I. to r.) Tony Lewis, Arthur Eynon, Carl Smith, Bob Garner and Gary... - View image in PDF
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Integrity
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.38 on the night of the 22nd of November, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore on the south side of the harbour. The boat was burning red flares, and at 9.48 the life-boat Edzcard...
Pigeons Are Helping the RNLI for In July the Northern Centres Charity Championship—A 400-Mile Race from Rennes France—Was Held In Aid of the Life-Boat Service
Pigeons are helping the R.N.L.I. For in July the Northern Centres Charity Championship—a 400-mile race from Rennes, France—was held in aid of the life-boat service. Mr. Brian Whittle, of Ashton-in- Makerfield, secretary of the Western Centre... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs