LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1880
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD PRIVY SEAL, PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current...
Category: Meetings
Young People Thought Up All Sorts of Energetic Ideas a Weird and Wonderful Fleet of London Rotaract Clubs' Rafts Make for the Starting Line
Young people thought up all sorts of energetic ideas . . . a weird and wonderful fleet of London Rotaract Clubs' rafts make for the starting line.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stornoway: for the Service To
Stornoway: for the service to Junella on September 29, 1980, Coxswain/Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald was awarded the silver medal for gallantry. With him are his crew, who were accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, (I. to r... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Violet, of Fraserburgh
FEBRUARY 23RD. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported a fishing boat ashore on the north side of the entrance channel to Girvan harbour and asking for help. A light northwesterly wind was blowing...
Kezia, of Sunderland
The schooner Kezia, of Sunderland, having got on shore on the Barber Sand during the night of January 15, blowing fresh from E.N.E., showed signals of distress, which being observed by the Caistor boatmen, they immediately launched the...
Remembering Rohilla
When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
Category: Articles
Maria, of Milford
On the 9th May the schooner Maria, " of Milford, ran on the bar at the mouth of the Boyne during a heavy gale from E.S.E. The Drogheda life-boat was quickly launched, and after one fruitless attempt succeeded in taking off her crew of 3...
Jubilee, of Preston
Three days afterwards the same Life- boat was also the means of rescuing the crew of 4 men from the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, which, during foggy weather, stranded on the north end of the Horse Bank. When the crew were brought ashore by...
Off to Pacific
Last year the former coxswain ol the Plymouth life-boat, Mr. Peter White, left England with his family to take up a government appointment in the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean. His place has been taken by Mr. John Dare, the second...
Category: Articles