LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. W. R. Grace, of Baltimore, U.S.A.
OCTOBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.27 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands, about six miles away to the east. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles...
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1904.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Ex-Arun Update
I am Birkir Agnarsson, coxswain of the Grindavik lifeboat Oddur V.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Heroes of 1913
medals are more difficult to earn, and hence few are more highly appreciated, than the Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It may indeed well be regarded as the Victoria Cross of the sea service, although it differs from that...
Category: Articles
All-Weather Lifeboat Tyne Class
ALL-WEATHER LIFEBOAT TYNE CLASS Photo: John Periam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth February, 1937.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir HENRY F.
OLIVER in the chair.
Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to Her Majesty the Queen for her...
Category: Committee
The Brave People of Moelfre
The brave people of Moelfre risked their lives as they pulled survivors from the surf.
Picture Tim Thompson.
Category: Drawings
Irvana
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 10.42 p.m.
on 23rd March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had gone ashore at Red bay. Ten minutes later a message was received that the vessel...
Yacht Ilona
The Life-boat William Erie was called in a moderate N.E. wind but thick fog, soon after midnight on the 26—27th January, by a telephone message, which reported a steamer was ashore at St. Alban's Head.
The vessel proved...
Used Postage Stamps and Covers
FOR THE PAST YEAR members of the staff of HM Prison Dartmoor and a number of the inmates have combined in a voluntary stamp scheme to help the RNLI. Used British and foreign postage stamps have been collected, sorted, graded, made up into...
Category: Articles