LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hythe Life-Boat Play
LAST February, as already reported in The Life-boat, the Hythe life-boat crew gave an entertainment. It was their second. The first had taken place two years before. It had been modestly called a concert, but proved to be such an original...
Category: Articles
Rescue In a Gale Near the Harbour Bar
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
Ellen
CARDIGAN.—On the 9th September the John Stuart Life-boat with some difficulty brought ashore the crew, consisting of 3 men, of the schooner Ellen, of Beaumaris, which had parted her cables during a heavy N.W. gale and tremendous sea near...
A Yacht (5)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 9 a.m. on 25th September, 1964, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that he had seen people waving from a yacht in Cairney's Quay. At 9.15 the inshore rescue boat launched in a fresh southwesterly...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th February, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Some Special Gifts
£22,000 from an Anonymous Donor.
A BANKNOTE for £1,000 sent in a regis- tered envelope with the message " One thousand pounds enclosed for the National Life-boat Institution," and then, underneath, "...
Category: Donations
Some More Gifts
From Warsaw THREE hundred and fifty-four zloty, ten groszy (£12 18s. 5d.), partly contri- buted to a life-boat collecting box at the British Passport Office, and partly the proceeds of a bridge tournament organized by two English ladies...
Category: Donations
The Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
302 THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE ROYAL STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed or Named. No, ENGLAND. It In. ...
Category: Articles
Sesam
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
(Left, Lower) a Clutch of Waveneys
(Left, top) Liam checks the cover on one of the first Atlantics to come up for sale. (Left, lower) A clutch of Waveneys at the Depot quay. The outer boat.
44-0 / 7, was due to leave Tilbury for New Zealand in March where... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs