LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Providentia, of Svelig
On the 24th March, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the brig Providentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen, while running for the South Harbour, struck on the rocks near the entrance. As soon as the vessel was seen making for the land, the...
Phil-anthropic swim
EastEnders actor Steve McFadden, known to millions as Phil Mitchell, swam a mile across open water on 31 May to support the RNLI. He joined 38 other swimmers to cross the River Fal in Cornwall and finished in an impressive 46...
Category: Articles
Retirement of Commander T. Holmes, R.N.
IT is with great regret that we have to announce the retirement, under the age limit, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, on completing twenty-seven years' service, and we feel sure that our regret will...
Category: Articles
The French Naval Vessel Victorieuse
Dungeness, Kent.—There was fog in the morning of the 2nd of March, 1948, and at 8.20 distress signals were heard. At 8.45 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea, and...
Lock Garve
Immediately after returning from another call on the night of the 1st November the Life- boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was dispatched to the assistance of another vessel which was in distress on the south part of the Brake Sands. A...
The Greek Motor Vessel Nafsiporos (2)
Douglas, Isle of Man; Holy head and Moelfre, Anglesey - On 2nd December, 1966, the Douglas, Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats were launched to the Greek motor vessel Napiporos. A full account of this service, for which two gold medals were...
Resolutions Passed at This Annual Meeting for 1888
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., PRESIDENT or THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by His Grace THE PRE- SIDENT.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BECK, Bart., M.P., JVP.
That...
Category: Meetings
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 14th of March, 1956, with Lord Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Sanchia
Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...
The Cuban-Registered Refrigerated Carrier Gran Piedra
The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be...