LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 6th May the Bridlington honorary secretary telephoned for a life-boat to stand by the Bridlington fishing boats, as the weather was very bad and the Bridlington motor life- boat was off service for overhaul. A moderate...
The S.S. Balmoral
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartlepool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Letchworth
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard at the pier head telephoned that a ship was in distress near the Mouse Light-vessel. A fresh wind was blowing. At 3.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
An Inn Sign
This is the new sign of The Life-boat Inn at Brancaster, Norfolk, and has been painted from the picture, by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the Cromer service to the barge Sepoy in December, 1933. It is reproduced by courtesyLof the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
ON HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, August 4, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was sent the following telegram by our Chairman, the Duke of Atholl: 'Members of the RNLI Committee of Management, lifeboat crews, voluntary workers and staff thank...
Category: Articles
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3rd September. A seaplane had been re- ported to have dropped into the sea, but as a thorough search revealed nothing the report appears to have been a false alarm.—Rewards, £8 19s..
The S.S. Shuna
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—Early on the morning of the 17th October the s.s. Shuna, of Glasgow, bound for Gothenburg, ran hard on the rocks one mile S.S.W. of Chuirn Island Light.
A west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
"R.N.L.I."
AMONGST the spectators at the Thames Pageant was an old lady who, on the approach of the Life-boats bearing flags marked R.N.L.I., showed great excitement, and, turning to her companion,I said in a loud voice and with evident pride: "...
Category: Articles
Antoinette (1)
PORT ISAAC and PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
—Oa the morning of the 2ad January a barque, which proved to be the Antoinette, of St. John, New Brunswick, bound from Newport for Santos with coals, was observed about eight miles distant...