LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House on Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 1882, The Eight Hon. The LORD MAYOR of LONDON in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
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Sarah Todd and David Collins Surrounded By Other Children from Fairfield Primary School Penarth
Sarah Todd and David Collins, surrounded by other children from Fairfield Primary School, Penarth, present a cheque for £90 to Captain W. G.
Sommerfield, honorary secretary of Penarth station branch, and to Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Julia, of Liverpool
On the night of the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind from S. to S.S.E., the barque Julia, of Liverpool, struck on the Brig Hill Bank, in Dundalk Bay. At daylight her signals of distress were seen from the shore, and the Dundalk...
Obituary
CAPTAIN THE HON. SIR ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., D.S.O., died on the 16th of April, 1958, at the age of 73. He first joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1932 and after the second world war rejoined in 1946....
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain R. M. Evans, of Moelfre, and Lt.-Comdr. H. H. Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R. Inspector of Life-Boats for the North West
Coxswain R. M. Evans, of Moelfre, and Lt-Comdr. H. H.
Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., inspector of life-boats for the north west, pictured in London just before they received their medals from Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, for... - View image in PDF
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Bristol Packet
PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—At daylight on the 9th March the Coastguard on duty observed a small vessel ashore in a verydangerous position on Cardiff sands. The wind was blowing strong from the W.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea. The Lifeboat...
Bonnie Lad
On the morning of the 6th August, the llfraeombe Life-boat Go-operator No. - rescued two persons, who were found in a pitiable condition in a fishing boat, which was dismasted and drifting helplessly in a strong W.S.W. wind and rough sea....
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on this page.
The original painting by Mr. Rowland Fisher, R.O.I., S.M.A., was...
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Lady Ernestine
THORPENESS, SUFFOLK.—The Life-boat Ipswich put off at 1 A.M. on the 4th November, flares having been shown by a vessel during a gale from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea, and brought safely ashore the crew consisting of six men, of the schooner...
Emulate
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that one of the Gourdon fishing fleet, Emulate, was overdue. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at noon. There was a...