LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.
November Meeting.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...
Category: Services
Home of hulls
SAR Composites Ltd, an RNLI subsidiary company, has acquired the lifeboat hull construction facility previously owned by Green Marine Ltd. Contracts were signed in January, securing the long-term future of all-weather lifeboat hull...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1933
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools was held this year for the thirteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,207, as compared with 2,249 in 1932. But though there was a decline...
Category: Articles
Frank, of Grimsby
WITHERNSEA.—On the 8th January, at 5 A.M., the smack Frank, of Grimsby, having on board a crew of 10 persons, was driven ashore off Waxholme, 2 miles north of Withernsea, during an E.S.E.
gale, accompanied by a heavy sea....
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1862
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and 51. to Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, the master of the smack Volunteer, of Harwich. Also the Silver Medal and 21. to each of the 5 men who went off in the smack's boat to the wreck; and the...
Category: Articles
Scotia, of Carnavon
On the 10th March, the schooner Scotia, of Carnarvon, anchored in a heavy S.W. gale off Trefadoc, near Holy- head : she soon commenced to drag her anchors, and was observed to be driving fast towards the Clipera Rocks. The Holy- head...
Flower of Fleet
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen one mile west of Portland Bill. At 9.20 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out. The sea was...