LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER MEETING EGLINTON, Co. LONDONDERRY. About 12.15 in the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1944, the Eglinton coastguard received an SOS from the R.N.A.S. Eglinton, that a Corsair aeroplane had crashed into the sea 200 yards off...

Fire dramaCoordination between the lifeboat and the Navy was the key to the successful operation to save a blazing Spanish trawler. Fire had broken out at around 3pm on Saturday, 27 January in the accommodation section of the ship, which had...

Ketch founders RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station at 0846 on Sunday May 17, 1981. that a yacht was aground at Derby Haven, east of Castletown; she was on the seaward side of the breakwater and...

ST. ANNE'S-ON-THE-SEA, LANCASHIRE.— The No. 1 Life-boat which has done duty at St. Anne's since 1886 has been re- placed by a new boat of the Liverpoo1 type, 36 feet long by 9 feet wide, fitted with two water-ballast tanks, and row-...

Honorary Life-Governor.

Mr. ARTHUR E. HEAZELL, honorary secretary of the Nottingham and District branch, has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given...

RNLI News 74 What's happening in and around the Institution Lifeboat Services Notable launches around the coast The Annual Meetings A report of the 1991 AGM and Presentation of Awards for 1990 Bookshelf Some recent publications reviewed...

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The large Life- boat on this station, having become through frequent use, unfit for further service, has been replaced by a new boat, which, like the one it superseded, has been named the Covent Garden, in acknow- ledgement...

A Nimrod jet aircraft of No. 201 Squadron,R.A.F. Strike Command, committed the ashes of the late Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., to the sea in Alum...