LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER,...
Category: Articles
A Drilling Rig
ROUGH SEA FACED IRB SAVE A drilling rig with men aboard off Hunterston was reported in trouble on 10th March. As assistance was required, the honorary secretary instructed the IRB at Largs, Ayrshire, to launch.
She launched...
The Executive Committee of the Rnli Meeting In the Old Committee Room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens London Where the Lifeboat Service Has Had Its Headquarters Since
The Executive Committee of the RNLI meeting in the old committee room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, where the lifeboat service has had its headquarters since the early 1930's. Fairly shortly the RNLI will be controlled from its new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seamen and Their Employers
MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...
Category: Articles
Ann Elizabeth
WHITBY.—On the 23rd February, when blowing hard from N.N.E., while several fishing-cobles were running into the harbour, one, the Ann Elizabeth, was caught by a cross sea and capsized. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert Whitworth, was...
Theodorus, of Liverpool
On the 30th October, during a gale from W.N.W., the schooner Theodorus, of Liverpool, was stranded on the north-west end of the Salt- house Bank. The Robert William life-boat put out and brought ashore 12 of the crew.
The...
Chalciope
BEAUNTON.—The Life-boat Robert and Catherine was launched at 8.30 P.M. on the 7th December, during a W.S.W. gale and a heavy broken sea, to the assistance of the brigantine Chalciope, of Fleetwood, bound from Corunna for Cardiff with pitwood...
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 15th February nine fishing boats proceeded to the fishing ground about eight or nine miles from the land. Shortly after having shot theirlines they were overtaken by a heavy gale from the N., and a very rough sea, and...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—Thirty two fishing-cobles proceeded to their fishing ground about 18 or 20 miles distant at 3.30 on the morning of the 14th. January. A strong wind sprung up from the S.E. at about 7 o'clock, and by 9...
Fishing Boats (2)
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At about 7 A.M. on the 20th May, 1938, the Staithes fishing fleet put to sea. The weather was fine, but a moderate sea was running. A moderate north breeze sprang up, and the sea became very heavy near Staithes harbour,...