LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (1)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—-At 10.20 P.M. on the 1st June the coastguard saw a flare at sea about four miles out. The life-boat was off service for survey and a motor boat manned by two men put out and searched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...
Category: Meetings
North Devon Humane Society
BIDEFORD or Barnstaple Bay lies on the north coast of Devonshire, just within Luudy Island at the entrance of the Bristol Channel.
From the high projecting cliffs of Hartland Point, which rise 330 feet above the sea, a...
Category: Articles
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1873-4
lisions.—It appears then, that the number of wrecks, casualties, and collisions from all causes on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas, reported during the year 1873-4, was 1,803, being 401 less than the...
Category: Charts
News from the Branches. 1st August to 30th November, 1936
Greater London.
CHINGFORD.—Address to the Rotary Club by the district organizing secretary.
CLAPHAM.—Annual meeting on 20th October, Mrs. Clarke, chairman, presiding.
Speakers :...
Category: Branches
In Fog Off Chesil Beach
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
Category: Services
Eight Life-Boats Search for An Aeroplane
ON 21st January, 1937, an aeroplane, G—AELT, with two men on board, left Liverpool for Belfast at ten in the morning. She did not arrive. A southerly wind was blowing, varying from a fresh breeze to a strong gale.
The sea...
Category: Services
Two Ex-Coxswains Drowned
ON the 25th of May a fishing coble, the Ricia, from Cloughey, Co. Down, went out lobster-fishing. She had three men on board, Andrew Young, his brother, John Young, and John's son, Andrew Young, junior. They were expected back before...
Category: Services
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
Category: Articles