LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Austrian Brig, Tregiste
On the 14th Nov. the Austrian brig, Tregiste, 333 tons, of Trieste, anchored for shelter, during a terrific gale from the east, under Lambay Island, near Dublin.
On the 15th she had dragged her anchors nearly half way...
Spirit
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
A Catamaran
TWO SURVIVORS FROM CATAMARAN LANDED Dungeness, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized and that two people were in the water off Greatstone. The...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
CLINGING TO SURVIVAL
When his craft hit a wave and flipped him into the chilly November sea, a boater was left holding on for dear life. Could anyone help him – or even see him?
‘I was just about to put on my hairnet and get baking when the...
Category: Articles
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
Category: Articles
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Flooding tide A PARTY of four wildfowlers, caravanning at Burnfoot on the Nith Estuary, on the north side of the Solway Firth, set off shooting at about 0730 on Monday January 19. It was about two hours after low water. Two of the party set...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1931
Reproduction of the Portrait of a Famous Coxswain.
THE Institution is preparing a Life-boat Calendar for 1931, which will be ready in November. In previous years the calendars have consisted of reproduc- tions of paintings...
Category: Advertisement
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning (1)
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING November and December, 1920, and January, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : — To ROBERT LEES, Esq...
Category: Awards