LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Doubled Annuities
LAST year the Institution greatly increased the retaining fees paid to the officers of life-boats. It also increased the payments made to crews and launchers for exercise launches, and brought in a new scale of rewards for services.
Category: Articles
Vintage Occasion
Vintage occasion The Belton and O'Neill families from Oxted, Surrey have entered the Beaulieu and Weymouth vintage car rally for the last six years. This is put on by the Wimborne branch of the RNLI and organised by the National... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (72)
SEPTEMBER 21ST. APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed eight miles north of Hartland Point, and at four in the afternoon the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. A squally N.W. by W. wind was blowing, with a...
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Category: Advertisement
Above: Hrh the Duke of Kent Kg
Above: HRH The Duke of Kent KG presented the awards for gallantry and those for long and distinguished honorary. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dear Reader
Careful! You’re holding something very valuable in your hands. It’s something you helped to make.
Thanks to the many letters and emails that readers send me, I have a pretty good idea of what you think is important about...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Astros
REFLOATING A TRAWLER Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.20 in the morning of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard reported a trawler ashore south of Rattray Head, with a bad list to port. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
Brackley
WICKLOW.—A storm of terrific violence visited Wicklow and the district on the 26th February. The wind had been blowing from the S. and towards night it increased to hurricane force, accompanied by a very heavy sea, and downpours of rain and...