LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
William Wouldhave's Centenary
THE 28th September of this year was the centenary of the death of William Wouldhave, of South Shields, whose name will always be honourably remem- bered, with those of Lionel Lukin, of London, and John Greathead, also of South Shields, as...
Category: Articles
St. Anne's Life-Boat Disaster Fund
ON the night of 9th December, 1886, three Lancashire life-boats, St. Anne's, Southport and Lytham, were launched to the help of the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, which had gone on the sands between Southport and Formby. A gale was blowing,...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1956 80,491 Notes of the Quarter THE summer months of 1956 were exceptionally...
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Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH SUNDEHLAND.— At 2 P.M. on the 1st January 1901 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and brought ashore the Crew of four men of the ketch Pallas, of Jersey, which had stranded on the Longstone rock, where she became a total...
Category: Services
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1900
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Category: Meetings
The Cork Waist Life-Belt
N the 22nd number of this Journal we described these life-belts, with which all the life-boat crews in connexion with the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are provided, and which they are required to wear on every occasion of their going...
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The Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association
WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday workers through- out the country, after reviewing the year's campaign thus far conducted, may well congratulate themselves on the very satisfactory results they have secured.
Taking all things...
Category: Articles
Mrs Teresa Smellie President of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Branch of the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild Has Been Made An Honorary Life Governor of the RNLI In Reco
Mrs. Teresa Smellie, president of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston branch of the ladies' life-boat guild, has been made an honorary life governor of the R.N.L.I, in recognition of her 40 years' service on behalf of the life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs