LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Douglas of Dundee
On the 26th October, 1859, the schooner Lord Douglas of Dundee, parted from her anchors in a heavy gale from- the south, and foundered off the village of Gorton, on the Suffolk coast. The Lowestoft life-boat proceeded under sail to the spot,...
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
'HE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have recently extensively circulated the following Queries on lie subject of the Treatment of Apparently Drowned Persons.
As it is thought the cause of science...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Themsleigh
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 2.5 early on the morning of the 2nd of No- vember 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that a mes- sage from the S.S. Themsleigh, of Hull, stating that she had run aground on the Gunfleet...
New Ways of Raising Money
A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.
Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...
Category: Donations
The Mail Steamer St. Sunniva
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Wreck Chart for 1852
WITH the present Number of the Life- Boat Journal we present our readers with a Wreck Chart of the British Isles, showing all the casualties to shipping which occurred in the seas and on the shores of the United Kingdom in the year 1852,...
Category: Charts
Rnli News
£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KINO EVWAKD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Lite-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
Fond farewell to volunteering trio
Having given almost two-thirds of a century to the RNLI between them, three Scottish volunteers are retiring this year. After clocking up 14 years (and 6,625 nautical miles), Peter ‘Ped’ McKinnon is retiring from his role as full-time...
Category: Articles