LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Broughton
ARKLOW.—The Coxswain of the Out Pensioner Life-boat, of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at Arklow, makes the following report of the circumstances attending the wreck of the barque Broughton, of Swansea, on the Irish coast, and...
Life-Saving and the United States Coast Guard
MARITIME safety in the United States took a giant step forward on the 28th of January, 1915, when two historic agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service, were merged into a single organization known as the United States...
Category: Articles
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Southern Star
Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin SandsBoth of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW gale with 14 people on board...
Lifeboats of the World: Part Ii—Sea Rescue Outside Europe By Eric Middleton
THE LIFEBOAT ORGANISATIONS of the world are to a large extent concentrated in Europe. Taking the wider aspect of general sea rescue, outside Europe it is mainly in the hands of the naval services or, as in the United States and Canada, an...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.
Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Edinburgh Merchant Seamen
WE notice with pleasure that growing interest by public men in the concerns of the seamen of the country, which is always one of the signs indicative of the importance of any particular matter be-ginning to be realised by the nation at large...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th October, 1931.
Special Meeting.
Sir GODFREY BABINO, Bt., in the Chair.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bfc., Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented to Sir GEORGE-SHEE a Gold...
Category: Committee
People and Places
Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.
The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...
Category: Articles
R.N.L.I. Delegation's Visit to the United States
THE Institution's decision to acquire a 44-foot life-boat of the kind now operated by the United States Coast Guard was a direct consequence of the international life-boat conference held in Edinburgh in June, 1963. At the conference the...
Category: Articles