LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday Celebrations
The vast majority of supporters and readers of The Lifeboat will know by now that the RNLI celebrated its 175th anniversary on 4 March.
Each one of the 223 lifeboat stations in the UK and Republic of Ireland raised a...
Category: Articles
Naming of the Rnlb Newsbuoy
Saturday September 29, 1984 ON A BRIGHT, early autumn day, one of the RNLI's newest lifeboats lay afloat, bedecked and sparkling, awaiting her naming ceremony. An ordinary enough scene for those familiar with such occasions but this...
Category: Inaugurations
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News
Welcome to Sir Jock The RNLI has a new Chairman following the retirement of Peter Nicholson CBECommenting on the Trustee Committee's appointment of Admiral Sir Jock Slater CCB LVO DL in July, RNU Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle said:...
Category: Articles
County of Ayr, of Glasgow,
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 19th March, the weather being fine and clear, and the wind moderate, the ship County of Ayr, of Glasgow, bound from Glasgow to Batavia, stranded on the Jack>s Hole- a Part of the Arklow Banks. whlch...
The Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives (1)
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
Marie
On the 17th November, during a very heavy gale of wind and in a high sea, a Prussian brig was seen hoisting signals of distress off this place. The Baroness Windsor life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to her assistance. Three...
Helene Lohden and Restitution
Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 23th January the Coast- guard reported that signals of distress had been fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. As quickly as possible the crew of the No 1. Life-boat Mark Lane were assembled, and the Life-boat,...
Hebe
During a heavy W.N.W. gale, which was experi- enced on the Lancashire coast on the 11 th December, the Life-boats were called out to the assistance of the steamer Hebe, of Bergen, bound from Norway to Preston with a cargo of wood pulp. The...
Ornen
NORTH SUNDERLAND.— The Life-boat Thomas Bewick was called out on service on the afternoon of the 4th of April to the assistance of the barque Ornen, of Frederickstadt, which was water-logged,and had driven on the Greenhill Sands, striking a...