LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service. Its Payments at a Glance, Its Receipts at a Glance
ITS PAYMENTS AT A GLANCE How each £100 of the Institution's Payments was made in 1957 £ s. d.
30 2 5 —" —- New Construction.
34 19 5 mam m m*~ —m Maintenance of Lifeboats and...
Category: Accounts
A Boat (1)
Aith, Shetlands. At 6.55 on the even- ing of the 8th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that two men had gone to an uninhabited island earlier that day in a small boat.
As the weather had deteriorated...
Rnli National Lottery
THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Eagle
HAYLE. — On the 24th March, the S.S. Eagle, of Neath, bound from that port to Hayle, with a cargo of coal, in making for the latter harbour, grounded on the bar, at about 9.30 A.M. she struck heavily, knocked away her rudder, and became...
A Small Boat
Barra Island, Hebrides.—A whole N.W.
gale suddenly sprang up at about 1 P.M. on the 15th January, 1938, and fear was felt for the safety of the small boat, manned by four men, which attended the Barra Head...
A Small Rowing Boat (1)
AUGUST 15TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A small rowing boat had been reported missing, but it got to land without help after having been stranded on a sandbank.
- Rewards, £13 16s..
Princess of Wales
The Stockport Sun- day Schools Life-boat was called out on the 3rd July, on the barque Princess of Wales, of Glasgow, going ashore about a mile south-east of Dundalk Lighthouse, and was enabled to bring the vessel's crew of 16 men safely...
The Annual Meetings
The South Bank Meetings 1989 The Annual General Meeting Presentation of Awards for 1988Once again the RNLI's annual meetings - held at the South Bank in London on 16 May - were able to reflect on a very successful 12 months for the...
Category: Meetings
The Sailing Boat Artistic
At about midnight on the 12th-13th September a telephone message was received from Gardenstown stating that the sailing boat Artistic of that place had struck on the rocks off the harbour, and the assistance of the Life-boat was required.<...
A Pilot Boat
At about 6 P.M., on the 12th March, two men put off in a pilot boat to pull a line set at sea. It was too dark to find it and they tried to get into harbour again, and twice were driven back, the boat shipping heavy seas. The third time they...