LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Success
Coxswain Reeves was called at 9.30 A.M. on the 15th November by one of the Coastguards, who reported that a barge was flying signals of distress, and required assistance. The Life-boat William Begtell was launched and proceeded to the vessel...
Actaeon
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—In the early morning of the 27th February, during moderate but cold weather, a barque was observed on the Hasboro' Sands.
The No. 2 Life-boat, Margaret, was launched and made for the wreck; on the...
The S.S. Albionic
On the afternoon of the 17th October Lloyd's agent reported to the life-boat station that the s.s. Albionic, of Hull, bound from Murmansk for Sharpness with a cargo of timber, was anchored in Broad Bay, about seventeen miles from...
The Women of Newbiggin
Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.
ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they were at sea a sudden gale sprang up. By...
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Yvonne
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Lifeboat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
In Pursuit of a Yacht
A STRONG south-westerly gale was blowing on the Sussex coast on the morning of Sunday, the 8th of August. The sea was very rough and there was a heavy swell.
Just after half past eight the coastguard at Shoreham Harbour saw...
Category: Services
Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Albionic
MARCH 19TH. - CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.10 A.M. a message from the coastguard, Hartland Point, was received at Clovelly that a steamer was on fire six miles north of the point. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
Is your risk of drowning greater than you think?
Around 400 people drown in the UK every year; a further 140 in Ireland. So what is the RNLI doing about it?
Our courageous volunteer lifeboat crews, lifeguards and flood rescue teams...
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Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Boats
FOWEY, CORNWALL.—A life-boat has been recently stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Polkerris, near Fowey, the cost of the same and of a substantial boat-house being defrayed chiefly by WILLIAM RASHLEIGH, Esq., J. F. DULLER,...
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