LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fraserburgh Motor Fishing Boat Violet
FEBRUARY 19TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the life-boat coxswain saw a fishing boat heading for the harbour from the south. A gale was blowing from the north-west and the seas were very heavy on the...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
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The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Witch
ADRIFT OVER 18 HOURS At 10.13 a-m- on 2^th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fleet auxiliary vessel Tidepool was standing by the converted ship's lifeboat Witch, which had broken down and was drifting nine...
The Seine-Net Fishing Boat Faithful
SEINE-NET FISHING BOAT DRIVEN ASHORE North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 7.20 on the evening of the 18th June, 1963, the coxswain reported that the local seine-net fishing boat Faithful, which had a crew of six, had driven...
Sporting Clubs Can Help the R.N.L.I.
THE life-boat service receives each year most valuable support from many sporting clubs. With costs increasing because of technical developments, it is timely to draw attention to the easy way in which clubs not yet helping the service can...
Category: Donations
National Safety Week
THE National Safety Week Council, on which the Institution is represented, is arranging to hold its second Safety Week from llth May to 16th May next.
The object of the Week is to arouse the public to the need of additional...
Category: Articles
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler Newhaven N.B.
May, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.15 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1949, while the life-boat was carrying out a wireless test from the station with the Kilchoman coastguard, she heard a distress call from the Aberdeen steam trawler Newhaven N...
The St. Cybi, Civil Service No. 9
A model of the 52-feet Barnett Stromness life-boat at Holyhead, made by Mr. F. A. Gordon of the Royal Air Force Establishment, Farnborough. and presented by him to the Institution (See page 405). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Nimrod Maritime Jet Aircraft of R.A.F. Strike Command Flying Over the Pentland Firth When the New Longhope Life-Boat (Centre), Which Is a 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent, Was Escorted to Her New Station
A Nimrod maritime jet aircraft of R.A.F. Strike Command flying over the Pentland Firth when the new Longhope life-boat (centre), which is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent, was escorted to her new station by (in the lead) 52-foot reserve life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs