LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa
DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 29th March, 1855. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Your Letters
Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.
She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...
Category: Correspondence
Central Appeals Committee
Committee EXCELLENT SUPPORT has continued this quarter for the various projects of the Central Appeals Committee. Captain Phelps, master of John Biscoe of the British Antarctic Survey, on arrival at Southampton handed over more than £31...
Category: Committee
A Yawl
Medical Evacuation at Islay Islay's Thames class lifeboat was involved in a relatively routine medivac on 4 August 1994 but, routine or not, this account from one of those on the receiving end of a lifeboat service illustrates the...
Prepare for the Worst
LAST YEAR'S capsize of the roll-on roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise close to Zeebrugge Harbour entrance, brought sharply into focus the need for emergency services on land and at sea to be alert and ready to cope with the myriad...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats
Ballycotton, Co. Cork—At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate...
Category: Services
T. H. Burton
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.2 P.M.
on the 30th November a telephone message was received from the dockmaster, Salisbury Dock, Liverpool, that a motor barge, and three dumb barges in tow, were aground off the North...
Another Bronze Medal Service By Padstow. Awards to the Master and Crew of the Tug "Helen Peele."
PADSTOW has the distinction of having carried out two services last year in which such skill and gallantry were shown in circumstances of great danger that the Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal in each case.
The...
Category: Medals