LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (13)
AUGUST 21ST. - WICKLOW. A vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the crew of the vessel had got the fire under control. - Rewards, £5 7s 6d.
A Collier
APRIL 3RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. A collier was reported to have been machine-gunned by German aeroplanes, but could not be found. News was received later that a collier had passed, going west, without lights, and the life-boat was...
An Aeroplane (31)
MARCH 11TH. - ARBROATH, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. An R.N.A.S. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except two wheels, one by the Arbroath life-boat and one by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards : Arbroath, £16...
None (8)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A Halifax bombing aeroplane had been reported in difficulties and her crew were said to have baled out, but no survivors could be found in the sea. - Rewards, £34 14s. 6d..
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1887
Lives saved.
Ackergill fishing boats 30 •4rm, schooner, of Liverpool, saved vessel and 4 Aurora, dandy, of Hull — re- mained by vessel.
Avenir, brig, of Krageroe—as- sisted to save vessel and 7...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
When Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, named a new lifeboat at Ramsgate on Friday 16 July, it was an historic occasion in more ways than one. This was the first time that a lifeboat was named in honour of a...
Category: Inaugurations
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1888
THANKS to the energy of the BOARD or TRADE we are enabled to draw the attention of our readers several months earlier than we had anticipated, to the facts and figures contained in the Blue Book compiled from the Wreck Register for the year...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 22nd August, 1935.
PAID £21,918 18s. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
Category: Articles
A day in the life
As Sunday 12 June unfolded, lifeboat crews were called into action all around the coast, from the Firth of Forth to County Cork …
Given that lifeboats launched 24 times a day on average in 2010...
Category: Articles