LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lowering Ships' Boats at Sea
ON a former occasion we brought to the notice of our readers Mr. LACON'S improved plan for lowering boats, intended to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable accidents and fearful loss of life as had then recently taken place in the...
Category: Articles
The French Barque Duc d' Aumale
On the 17th July, during a moderate N.N.W. gale and rough sea, information was received that a barque was ashore on the Kentish Knock Sands, with a flag signal flying, which could not be distinguished on account of the rain. The No. 2 Life-...
Livonia and Bon Espoir
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...
Solent Gull, of Poole
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 8.50 p.m. on 17th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen north west of the Needles near the shingle bank. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
Category: Articles
Bye-Laws of the Royal National Life-boat Institution
I. THE Annual General Meeting prescribed by the Charter shall be held on the 4th day of March, or as soon after as may be convenient,, and the same and all other General Meetings shall be held at such time and place as the Committee of...
Category: Meetings
Duke of Westminster
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
In October 1968 the Chairman of the RNLI Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods GBE KCB DSO and Deputy Chairman Cmdr F R H Swann OBE RNVR Inspected
In October, 1968, the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., and Deputy Chairman, Cmdr. F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., inspected the life-boat at Aberdeen in the course of a tour of Scottish life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Features
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
Golden Hope
ENGINE BREAKDOWN At 8.22 a.m. on 25th October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the skipper of the fishing-vessel Golden Hope had radioed, asking for his vessel to be kept under observation because her engine had broken down. The...