LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In with the new
A sense of new beginnings makes Spring a good season for the naming ceremonies of new lifeboats and this year was no exception.
Namings included D class lifeboats for Fowey, Redcar, Clifden, Aldeburgh and the relief fl eet...
Category: Articles
Danger at Daunt Rock
In hurricane force winds, Ballycotton lifeboat crew launched to the aid of eight men on a lightship near Daunt Rock. 70 years on, it's a feat of courage and endurance still seen as one of the most demanding rescues in RNLI...
Category: Articles
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
FRASERURGH, SCOTLAND. A life-boat station has been established at Frazerburgh by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in conjunction with the Harbour Commissioners of that port. The life-boat is on the Institution's plan, designed by Mr....
Category: Articles
The S.S. Druid of Sunderland
At 10.40 P.M. of the 6th Jan., the Birmingham No. 2 Life- boat put off, in answer to signals of dis- tress from the s.s. Druid, of Sunderland, and conveyed ashore 5 of her crew who had been injured by the bursting of her boiler. One poor...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Book Reviews
• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.
This book...
Category: Articles
Tijl Uilenspiegel
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Annual Report. 1884
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1884, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, KG., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
William Frothingham, of New York
Signals of distress were exhibited by a large full-rigged ship about two miles and a half to the north- ward of this place, on the 22nd of Octo- ber, whereupon the Benjamin Bond Gabbell life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel,...
Gleaner of Carnarvon
On the same day the brigantine Gleaner, of Carnarvon, went ashore on Henblas Beach, on this coast. The Cotton Sheppard life- boat went off, in reply to the signals of distress from the vessel, and rescued the crew of 3 men, who were landed...