LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (3)
21st Feb- ruary. A fishing boat was disabled but was taken in tow by a trawler.— 'Rewards, £5 14s..
A Steamer (3)
Cromer, Norfolk. — 12th May. A steamer had stranded, but got off unaided.—Rewards, £8 14s..
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds,...
Category: Services
The Seaham Disaster
At 3.55 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Seaham life-boat station, Captain R. Hudson, was informed by the coast- guard that, according to a report from a local fisherman, a small boat was still out and...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 73 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to - 62,913 June 9th, 1932 Annual Meeting.
THE Hundred and Eighth...
Category: Meetings
Shoreline
ANOTHER YEAR has come to the end, and a very successful one it was for Shoreline. Membership is well in excess of 97,000, and although we did not reach our target of 100,000 we were not all that far off. I doubt whether we shall be many...
Category: Articles
Launches of Life-boats and Lives Rescued
Life-boats were launched to ships in distress 3,760 times. Of these launches 2,212 were to ships in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war. Life-boats rescued 6,376 lives..
Category: Services
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 2,518 times, saving 1,046 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,723 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of...
Category: Articles
Ellie Park
— The schooner Ellie Park of Barrow, bound from the Dee to Red Bay in the north of Ireland encountered very heavy weather and when trying to make port had her sails blown away in a heavy squall.
The anchor was run out, but...
A Bathtub
THREE MEN who had set out to cross the Inner Wash from the River Nene to Hunstanton in a bathtub on Monday September 13, 1982, were reported overdue at 2115; the tub was lashed to inner tubes and an inflatable dinghy and powered by an...