LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fishing Smacks the Polly and Oiling On
On the 7th May two fishing-smacks, the Polly and Oiling On, of Pargate, were seen aground on the West Hoyle Bank ina perilous position, a strong breeze blowing from the W.N.W. The Life-boat H. G. Powell, stationed at Point of Ayr, put off at...
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Category: Index
The Anchor Liner California
Aranmore and Greencastle, co. Donegal.
—The Anchor liner California, of Glas- gow—a vessel of nearly 9,000 tons register—stranded on the N.W. point of Tory Island, during a dense fog, on the evening of 28th June. She was...
Larissa
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M.
on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel...
150 Years Old
Ix 1950 the Committee of Management of the Institution resolved that life- boat stations which had been pre- sented with a vellum to commemorate the completion of a hundred years would be presented with another to mark the completion of a...
Category: Articles
On a Lee Shore
off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...
Category: Drawings
Your Letters
Your Letters Continued Figurehead history Sir - During the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's existence, hundreds, if not thousands, of sailing ships were lost around the coast of the United Kingdom and many daring...
Category: Correspondence
Obituaries
Mrs Mary Barker - Stokesley and Ayton District Guild President George Cole - Former Eastbourne Crew Member Tom Cozens - Calshot Deputy Launching Authority Mrs Hazel George - Plymouth Guild Honorary Secretary Sir John Grady - Life Vice...
Category: Obituaries
Twenty-One West Sussex Businessmen Took Part In a Sponsored Cycle Ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and Back In October In Aid of the RNLI the Only Unusual T
Twenty-one West Sussex businessmen took part in a sponsored cycle ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and back in October, in aid of the R.N.L.I. The only unusual thing was that all were on one cycle, said to be the largest in the world,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ned' the Barge Horse and Mr E Wrangles Who Was Sponsored By 140 People for £137 Were Two of the Participants In the Hertford Walk In Aid of the RNLI Along The
'Ned', the barge horse, and Mr. E. Wrangles, who was sponsored by 140 people for £137, were two of the participants in the Hertford walk in aid of the R.N.L.I, along the towpath of the River Lee from Hertford to Dobbs Weir last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs