LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.
September Meeting.
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...
Category: Services
Adrift In the Irish Sea. Search By Seven Life-Boats
ON the night of the 15th November, 1937, the three-masted auxiliary schooner Invermore, of Dublin, left New Ross, Co. Wexford, for Liverpool, with a cargo of pit props. She carried a crew of five. During the following night, when she was off...
Category: Services
The Rescue
I WAS hastening up from the beach, where the life-boat men had rendered good service that night.
****** The work was nobly done! JOHN FURBY, the coxswain, with a sturdy crew of volun- teers—twelve in all—were ready for...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as-...
Category: Services
The Storms of Winter. The Return of the Missing Crew
( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...
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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 sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
Edinburgh and R. M. Ballantyne, 30 feet long, 7 feet wide, 10 oars.
THE Life-boat Edinburgh and R. M, Ballantyne was placed on this station in 1866.
Port Logan is a small bay in Wigtonshire, on the...
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Two Sponsored Lunch-Hour Knit-Ins By Rnli Headquarters Staff at Poole Raised £44 One Was Held Near the Caravan on the Quay; the Other Due to Rain In the Office
Two sponsored lunch-hour knit-ins by RNLl Headquarters staff at Poole raised £44. One was held near the caravan on the quay; the other, due to rain, in the office. Knitters were sponsored by other members of staff and their families;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fine Service By the Donna Nook Life-Boat
ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...
Category: Services