LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Strong Appeal
THE manager of a large works in London has sent the Institution an account of the method which was adopted to carry out the annual life- boat appeal. The largest and strongest man in the works was chosen to make it. In one hand he had the...
Category: Donations
(Below) a Vintage Gift: This 1926
(Below) A vintage gift: this 1926, four-seater open tourer Rolls-Royce 20 was generously donated to the RNLI and recently came under the hammer at a Christie's car auction at Beaulieu in Hampshire. In the words of the sale catalogue:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Every Year Ronald Tail (Third from Left) Conducts Seashore Nature Trails
Every year Ronald Tail (third from left) conducts seashore nature trails, taking holidaymakers on walks along the beach at Appledore and telling them about some of the numerous creatures that live in the pools, on the rocks and in the sand... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In For The Long Haul
In for the long haul The yacht Paka’a was returning across the Channel from Cherbourg, on the evening of 27 May 2007, when her auxiliary engine began to fail The weather was appalling – against the 50–60 knot headwinds and torrential rain,...
Category: Articles
The Aberdeen Life-Boat's Journey to Her Station
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Importer of Life-boats.
THIS Life-boat left Cowes for her station on Saturday, 22nd October last. She is a sister boat to the new Plymouth Life-boat described in the last...
Category: Articles
Two Minutes
With huge numbers of visitors expected in the south west for the solar eclipse on 11 August the RNLI and the other emergency services had their contingency plans in place… Mike Floyd watched events unfold at the Coastguard MRCC at Falmouth...
Category: Articles
The Centenary Dinner
A DINNER in celebration of the Institu- tion's Centenary was held at the Hotel Cecil, on 2nd July, 1924. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G. (the Institution's President) presided, and those present numbered 478, among them being...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Telesilla
WmTBURN.—The s.s. Telesilla, of and from London for Shields in ballast, stranded on Whitburn Stile during thick weather and a strong sea on the 7th December.
The William and Charles Lifeboat put off to her assistance at...
Eliza
WHITBURN.—On the 20th April, the brig Eliza, of Shoreham, bound from Stockholm to Sunderland with deals and iron, drove on shore a little to the north- ward of Whitburn Steel. Signals of dis- tress were shown, and the Coast-guard at once...
Chevereul
CARNSORE.—On the 21st December, at 2.15 A.M., a vessel was reported to be stranded in Churchtown Bay. The Lifeboat Iris proceeded there promptly, and found the barque Chevereul, of Havre, ashore there. The wind was blowing from the S.E.,...