LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ex-Belgian Tanker Laurent Meeus
OCTOBER 18TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 4.15 P.M.
the naval authorities asked the Fleetwood life-boat to go to the help of a vessel aground about one hundred yards W. by N. of Shell Wharf Buoy, and the motor...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1897
THE RIGHT Hon. G. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, rs THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. a.
J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty.
Seconded by Sir COURTENAY BOYLE...
Category: Meetings
Members of Adlington Ladies' Guild Inspect Items Donated for Their Bi-Annual Christmas Fair Held In Adlington Hall a Beautiful Privately Owned Tudor Mansion Which Is
Members of Adlington ladies' guild inspect items donated for their bi-annual Christmas Fair, held in Adlington Hall, a beautiful, privately owned Tudor mansion which is open only to the public on certain days of the year. In all, this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Listings
Blue Peter 7 at Littlehampton Littlehampton's new Blue Peterfunded lifeboat Blue Peter 1 has been named and welcomed into the RNLI fleet at a special ceremony of dedication in October. This was a double celebration, as the new...
Category: Articles
Blackpool Returning
From a photograph by Mr, Frank Bowes, of Blackpool. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below Left) Getting Down to Detail: Devon Scouts Who Visitedbideford Shipyard on March 6 Were Shown Over \Vaveney 44-018 By Roger Sullivan Rnli Overseer Steel This
(Below left) Getting down to detail: Devon Scouts who visitedBideford Shipyard on March 6 were shown over Vaveney 44-018 by Roger Sullivan, RNLI overseer steel. This lifeboat, to the funding of which Scouts have contributed more than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
Opreisingen of Arendal
On the 30th August, 1859, the brig Oprdsingen, of Arendal, ran on the Bonndnis rock, in Cas- tletown Bay. The master and carpenter landed to procure assistance; but the wind and sea increasing rapidly, it was impossible again to reach her in...
Loch Loy, of Nairn
SEPTEMBER 22ND. - CROMARTY. At 5.20 in the afternoon the Burghead coastguard reported the motor fishing vessel Loch Loy, of Nairn, in difficulties three miles northeast- by-north of Nairn. A south-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough...
A Memorial at Clacton-On-Sea
ON the 14th of November, 1948, a memorial plaque to Second-Coxswain Frank Castle, of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, was unveiled in the boat- house.
The plaque is inscribed with these words: " In memory of Frank Castle,...
Category: Articles