LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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A Boat
LIFE-BOAT HOLED BY CASUALTY A SMALL BOAT in a dangerous position off the West Hoyle Bank on 27th August, 1971, led to the Hoylake, Cheshire, life-boat Thomas Corbett being launched at 10.27 a.m.
The wind was west north west...
Ships' Figureheads
SHIPS' figureheads, once-upon-a-time, were a common sight on land for, it was said, a ship in olden times without a figurehead was inconceivable.
In towns and villages by the sea they could be seen atop fishermen's...
Category: Articles
Letters
Waves The cover picture of the winter 1982/ 83 journal, number 482, the picture of The White Rose of Yorkshire returning to sea off Whitby Harbour, depicts vividly the dangerous sea conditions our lifeboatmen continually face around our...
Category: Correspondence
New Life-Boats
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—The Life-boat stationed here by the Institution many years ago has been replaced by a new one named the Brothers Brickwood, the cost of which was generously bequeathed to the Institution...
Category: Inaugurations
The Effect of Steam Fishing-Boats on Small Fishing Communities
IN a former article in this journal (February, 1895) it was pointed out what an important part in the organi- zation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was occupied by the fisher- men living on the coasts of Great Britain and...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
HARTLEPOOL. SEAMEN'S LIFE-BOAT.—This boat, of the establishment of which, by the seamen of Hartlepool, we gave a description in our last number, has soon had opportunities for rendering essential service, and so of effecting the humane...
Category: Services
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the Offices of the Society, John Street, Adelphi, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1854,, CAPTAIN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, VICE...
Category: Annual Reports
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives 100 years ago The winter 1906 edition of the Journal revealed how John Owston, Coxswain of the Scarborough lifeboat, met King Edward VII after being asked by Lord Londesborough to assist a...
Category: Articles
An Irish Lights Steamer
DECEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARF BOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
An Irish Lights steamer bad been bombed and sunk by German aeroplanes, when carryto ing reliefs for light-ships from Rosslare to the Coningbeg Light-vessel, but...