LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two R.A.F. Aeroplanes
JULY 1 3TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
Two R.A.F. aeroplanes had collided while on patrol and had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat, with two R.A.F. officers onboard, could find nothing. - Rewards, £10...
A Fishing Boat (2)
APRIL 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND , HEBRIDES. A ship’s boat, with sails up, had been reported some miles off the coast, but could not be found, and it was learnt later that she was a small fishing boat under sail, and not in need of help. - Rewards,...
The Centenary Meeting
The CHAIRMAN : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, ladies and gentlemen, to-day is the hundredth birthday of our Life-boat Service.
That is the historic event which we have met here to celebrate.
It is, and...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At ,' 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., j 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, j so as to be in readiness should the ser-vices of the boat be required, as...
Category: Services
Magdapur
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—While bound for Newcastle the oil tanker Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by enemy action off Aldeburgh on 10thSeptember, 1939. Information reached the life-boat station...
Fire Extinguishers at Life-Boat Stations
THERE are two types of fire extinguishers in use at Life-boat Stations. The one is the liquid type, charged with carbon tetrachloride, the other is the "Total" extinguisher which is a dry powder machine. This type was first adopted...
Category: Articles
Chairman Praises All for Their Efforts
CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. City of Bristol and the S.S. Selnes
Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 26th of November, 1950, the pier head signal station re- ported a message from the Walton-on- Naze coastguard. The S.S. City of Bristol, of Glasgow, had been in collision with the...
Gold Gnome
CROMER OUT FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.20 in the evening of the 26th of October, 1947, the Palling coastguard reported that the motor vessel Gold Gnome, of London, was flying distress signals off Happis- burgh and the No. 2...
Gemini
At 1.46 p.m. on 5th April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a dinghy was searching for skin divers three quarters of a mile north east of Swanage pier. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 2.2. When the lifeboat came up...