LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gladonia
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
Category: Articles
Aglae (1)
CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...
Capt Brian Atkinson Aberdeen Hon Secretary
Capt Brian Atkinson Aberdeen Hon Secretary. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Virtuous, Just Reward, Good Way, Golden Gleam and Mary Jane
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
Focus on . . . St. Helier
Dial 999 for fire, police, ambulance, life-boat.
Those words on the cover of the Jersey telephone directory, in large type, caught my eye soon after I landed on the island. They sum up very neatly the efficient way in which...
Category: Articles
Endeavour and Eliza Bell
ABEBSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The Mabel Louisa Life-boat was launched, at 2.30 A.M.
on the 29th of April, with much difficulty, the night being very dark, the tide far out, and a very heavy sea breaking on the shore. She proceeded...
Protective Clothing
A GREAT PROBLEM is posed by protective clothing. 'Oilskins' made of a single layer of waterproof material will keep out the wet, but, because of the difference in temperature between the outside atmosphere and the body heat, and...
Category: Articles
Enfant de Bretagne
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE annual meeting of the committee of this fund, of which H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH is patron, was held on the 11th January last at the General Post Office, W. H. HAINES, Esq., 1 of the House of Lords, occupying the...
Category: Meetings