LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a ship had run ashore two hundredyards east of Beeston Regis. At 7.15 the life-boat Forester's Centenary was launched....
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain the Right Hon. Charles C. Craig, Mr. Norman Clark Neill, and Lieut.- Col. F. Rayner, D.S.O., T.D., as members of the...
Category: Committee
Alderney Lifeboat and Sea Victor Outside St.Peter Port Photograph By Courtesy of Peter Leadbetter
Alderney Lifeboat and Sea Victor Outside St Peter Port Photograph By Courtesy of Peter Leadbetter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishing- cobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off...
Category: Services
The Final Trials of the Motor Tractor
By Captain HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
I GAVE an account, in The Life-Boat for May, 1920, of the reasons which had led the Institution to look for some mechanical means for launching...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
J LIFEBOAT CREW INJURED AS MIZZEN MAST FALLS Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in...
Category: Services
The Centenary of the Institution
PLANS FOR ITS CELEBRATION.
We are now within four months of the end of our first century. The Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, at a " Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others held at the...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Although there was a damp and misty start to the day it did not deter about 5,000 people from joining in the fun at last autumn's annual Hartlepool harbour fete, which is organised by the local branch and its many friends. The highlight...
Category: Donations
Trumpeter and The Ilfracombe of Milford Haven
SEPTEMBER 22ND and 23RD. - GALWAY BAY. At 10.30 at night on the 21st, a strong gale blew up and ten steam trawlers, at anchor in Kilronan Bay, dragged their anchors.
Two went on the rocks, one mile south-south-east of the...