LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Echo, of London
Another excellent service was performed by this valuable life-boat on the 17th December. Soon after midnight a vessel was reported on shore at Eccles, about a mile and a half from Palling. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind from the N.W. at...
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 October 31st, 1953 78,410 Notes of the Quarter First Shore-boat Award of the Year Two...
Category: Articles
Agathe Scheibert, of Stettin
Ten days afterwards the Lcetitia life- boat went out in tow of the steam-tug Rainbow, and succeeded in rescuing the master and crew of the schooner Agathe Scheibert, of Stettin, which was wrecked on the Holm Sand during a strong N.E....
Notes of the Quarter
TO MARK the Royal Wedding in July telegram of congratulations was sent to HRH The Prince of Wales on behalf of the RNLI by its chairman, the Duke of Atholl: 'The Committee of Management, lifeboat crews, voluntary workers and staff of the...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (9)
OCTOBER
Launches 107. Lives rescued 107.
OCT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX, At about 4 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S. of Walton Pier, was flying...
Category: Services
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition for Elementary Schools
IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of the Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout the...
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the j 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk. ' During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather, • the...
Category: Services
The Centenary: In the South-West of England
BERKSHIRE.
Reading.
A ROYAL CENTENARY MATINEE was held on 10th May, which was a great success, and was attended by H.R.H. the Prin- cess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat...
Category: Services
Watermillock, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the 6th November, during a gale of wind from the N.N.W., accompanied by blinding showers, a vessel was observed in distress about a mile and a half from this place. The Par see life- boat promptly proceeded to the...