LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1903
His GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G.
Seconded by Vice-Admiral LORD CHARLES BERESFORD, C.B.
Supported by the Right Hon....
Category: Meetings
Five Pile Drivers
At 1.30 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a whole N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, signals of distress were seen from five Pile Drivers which were moored in the River Humber. The Life-boat Charles Burton was launched and...
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1957. 151 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 39 times and rescued 45 lives.
FISHING BOAT TOWED FROM NEAR ROCKS Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 10.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1957, the Kilkeel coastguard...
Category: Services
The Cross-Channel Ferry Free Enterprise VIII
Reported missing DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Dover lifeboat station at 1915 on Sunday, November 7, 1976, that a man had been reported missing and assumed overboard from the cross-Channel ferry Free Enterprise...
The Wreck Register and Chart
IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—The Life- boat on this station, in compliance with the urgent and repeated requests of the crew, has been replaced by a smaller boat, for it was found that, on account of there not being a sufficient number of men on...
Category: Articles
Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch and Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
Hon. Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch and Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
By LIEUT-GENERAL SIR HENRY MERRICK LAWSON, K.C.B.
[A short account of Major Burton's career and,, in...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The Listings section of this magazine shows just how often RNLI lifeboats launch. Here is a selection of the wide-ranging stories behind the statistics and, overleaf, full details of those rescues that merited formal awards Ex-lifeboat saved...
Category: Services
(Below) a Vintage Gift: This 1926
(Below) A vintage gift: this 1926, four-seater open tourer Rolls-Royce 20 was generously donated to the RNLI and recently came under the hammer at a Christie's car auction at Beaulieu in Hampshire. In the words of the sale catalogue:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Blast of Royal National Life-Boat Institution Whistles, Teams of Women and Schoolgirls Drawn from Around Bournemouth and Poole Began Furiously Knitting Blanket Squares at Sponsored Kni
At the blast of Royal National Life-boat Institution whistles, teams of women and schoolgirls drawn from around Bournemouth and Poole began furiously knitting blanket squares at sponsored knitins held simultaneously at Beales of Poole and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs