LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fyne dining
Loch Fyne restaurants, long-standing supporters of the RNLI, are redoubling their efforts with a fundraising push this Autumn.
The company is challenging each of its 44 restaurants to raise £500 by the end of November...
Category: Articles
Express Annie Brooks and Mary Ann
APPLEDORE, DEVON.—About 7 P.M. on the 4th April the Life-boat Hope was launched from this station during a strong breeze at W.N.W., and proceeded to the assistance of the schooners Express, Annie Brooks, and Mary Ann, which were wrecked on...
Lord Tennyson
At 8.30 P.M., on the 22nd January, the Coastguard at Rye Harbour reported that a vessel in the bay was making distress signals.
Without delay the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched and proceeded to the craft,...
SAFETY NET
Thanks to your support, the RNLI is helping to make the seas a safer place for the people who put fish on our tables
Commercial fishing in the cold, rough seas around the UK and Republic of Ireland is a hazardous...
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Lifeguards Uncovered
In 2002 the RNLI operated 43 Beach Rescue units and Beach Rescue lifeguards saved 22 lives. Across the South West they dealt with 867 major incidents. These figures are impressive, but statistics don't tell the whole story. To find out...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...
Category: Articles
Llfracombe Celebrated Its 150Th Anniversary With An Hour-Long Ceremony at the Lifeboat Station on the Pier on Saturday September 23 1978 When (Left) a Commemora (1)
llfracombe celebrated its 150th anniversary with an hour-long ceremony at the lifeboat station on the pier on Saturday September 23, 1978, when (left) a commemorative vellum was presented by Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Your Letters Continued Figurehead history Sir - During the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's existence, hundreds, if not thousands, of sailing ships were lost around the coast of the United Kingdom and many daring...
Category: Correspondence
Ships' Logs
AMONGST the many appliances which con- tribute to the safe navigation of a ship, none is of more importance than the small instrument termed " a log," by which the distance run can be approximately ascer- tained from day to day, or...
Category: Articles
Ecclefechan
DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque...