LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Ways of Raising Money
THERE has been some very encouraging news of the activities of youthful supporters of the life-boat service. The junior section of the Edinburgh branch, which has been growing steadily in strength, recently organised a junior gymkhana at a...
Category: Donations
Here and There
Southampton Boat Show The eleventh Southampton International Boat Show was opened by Sir Alec Rose on Monday September 17 in brilliant sunshine, and in the week that followed all exhibitors reported business beyond their expectations: orders...
Category: Articles
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Simon Cooke, a member of Torbay lifeboat crew, unearths an unusual explanation for an unusual service...
Lifeboat crews up and down the coast spend many hours searching for people reported missing , but not many get called...
Travelscope
Every booking benefits the RNLI OCEAN CRUISE COLLECTION On Board The MV Van Gogh I Madeira & Canary Islands Sunshine Cruise 12 Days from Departs October 2004 and April 2005 from Falmouth Ports of call: La Coruna, Casablanca, Lanzarote,...
Category: Advertisement
Out of the gloom
A fisherman lay injured onboard the world’s largest trawler, 200 miles offshore of County Galway
It was just after 7pm on 23 January 2010 and the crew of the 144m trawler Annelies Ilena had caught 50 tonnes of scad (horse...
Category: Articles
Battle in the bay
When a teenage boy found himself caught in a tidal backwash, his friends watched in horror – could anyone reach him before it was too late?
On 7 September the 13-year-old was playing with his...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAHORE, IRELAND.—A branch of the Na- tional Life-boat Institution has been founded at Cahore, on the coast of Wexford, Ireland.
The Blackwater Bank, extending for many miles along this part of the coast, has been from time...
Category: Articles
Meetings of Committee, 1852
Thursday, 8th January, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed,— It was resolved, on an application from the Local Committee at Aldborough, Suffolk, to grant from...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SERVICES OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
LLANELLY, SOUTH Witis—On the 7 January, 1867, intelligence was received here that a vessel was amongst the breakers on the Towyn Sands with signals of...
Category: Services
The Four-Masted S.S. Eider, of Bremen (1)
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...