LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Countess of Caithness
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th March, a signal of distress was shown by the schooner Countess of Caithness', of Gloucester, bound from Limerick to Port William, N.B., with a cargo of bones....
Minstrel Boy
Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the Institution's chairman. The other members...
His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (Major General Sir William Fry, K.C.V.O., C.B.) Speaking from the Ramsey Life-Boat on Life-Boat Day
His Excellency The Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (Major General Sir William Fry KCVO CB). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Countess of Zetland
GREAT YARMOUTH.—Intelligence was received on the morning of the 27th December that the brig Countess of Zetland, of Wells, was ashore on the beach. A strong S. by E. wind was blowing, and a heavy sea running at the time. The Abraham Thomas...
The Granton Trawler Marjory M. Hastie
MARCH 4TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At four in the morning the Elie coastguard reported that a trawler was aground near Boarhills, and the motor lifeboat Nellie and Charlie was launched at 4.45.
A strong...
Lord Collingwood, of Newcastle
On the 29th October, the barque Lord Collingwood, of Newcastle, went ashore off Souter Point.
The Thomas Wilson life-boat put off and remained all night by the vessel, which was towed safely into harbour the next morn- ing....
How the Cornish Lifeboat Appeal Was Launched
EARLY in 1972 the Committee of Management of the RNLI decided to try to raise an extra £50,000 net in Cornwall to complete the total bill for the new Sennen and Falmouth boats.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, RD, RNR, Staff...
Category: Articles
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
The Twin-engined Cabin Cruiser Eldora
CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 9th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down two miles north of Cape Cornwall....
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1870
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, F,C,in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current year:—(vide last...
Category: Meetings