LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Thanks of the Institution on Vellum The Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement.
REV. W. CARROLL, of...
Category: Awards
Barry Dock Lifeboat Station Has Very Close Links With Raf Kinloss
Barry Dock lifeboat station has very close links with RAF Kinloss, a friendship which began six years ago when Fl-Lt Tony Cowan and a colleague were testing a homing device they had invented. After a satisfactory completion of the trials, in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marylis
Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of February, 1956, a man reported that the trawler Marylis, of Lorient, had run on the rocks in Ballyhealy Bay and that her crew of nine needed help. At 10.35 the life- boat Ann Isabella...
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Stranded children EDINBURGH CITY POLICE informed Queensferry ILB station at 1725 on Sunday February 4 that four children and their dog were stranded on Cramond Island. The children had tried to return to the mainland by the causeway but, cut...
Scarborough Lifeboat the 37' Oakley J G Graves of Sheffield Launched at 1945 on September 21 1976 With a Pump and Three Firemen on Board to Help Trawler Anmara
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37' Oakley J. G. Graves of Sheffield, launched at 1945 on September 21, 1976, with a pump and three firemen on board, to help trawler Anmara (with crew of three) under tow of trawler Carolanne and in danger of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (173)
NOVEMBER 15TH . - RHYL, FLINT - SHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and it was learned later that no aeroplane was missing. - Rewards :...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direc- tion of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...
Category: Services
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1902-1903
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SHOWING .ALSO THE PRESENT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.
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Category: Charts
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The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society’s Handbook 2011 is now available, priced £6 (including postage and packaging).
It lists the names, numbers and locations of all RNLI lifeboats and station equipment,...
Category: Articles
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As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.
D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...