LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI Scoops Two Golds!
The awards were made at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 9 December 1997, and the photograph (right) shows Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's head of public relations, together with Derek Humphries, managing director of Burnett... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Finance In 1942: Income.
Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...
Category: Articles
Haberdine, of Teignmouth
On the 14th March the schooner ffaberdine, of Teignmouth, on making Padstow harbour, was driven ashore on the Dunbar Sand. The life-boat was quickly alongside, and rescued her crew of 4 men. The vessel became shortly after a total wreck. The...
John, of Hartlepool
On the 24th November, at 5'30 A.M., signals of distress were observed to ,the northward. A strong gale from the E.S,E. was blow- ing at the time, accompanied with rain.
The Winterton life-boat was launched, and with...
Clyde, of Yarmouth
On the 16th Jan.,1867, the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The schooner Clyde, of Yarmouth, was ob- served making for the shore, and with signals of distress flying, the wind blowing at the...
Aid
BLAKENEY.—During a gale from the northward, on the 21st February, the ketch Aid, of Hull, bound from Barton to London, was observed riding heavily at her anchors, 4 miles from Blakeney, with a signal of distress flying. The tide being out,...
Triton
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock onthe morning of the 5th October the fishing smack Triton, of Yarmouth, stranded on the Barber Sand. The weather at the time was squally, and there was a heavy sea on the beach and sands. The -vessel was...
Alabama
On the 7th November, the No. 1 Lifeboat Mark Lane was launched at about 5.15 A.M., signals of distress having been seen during a moderate gale, increasing at intervals to a strong gale, from the E.S.E., and a very heavy sea. After a long...
Woolgast
The Caroline life-boat, stationed at North Berwick, N.B., rendered assistance on the occasion of the stranding of the brig Woolgast, of Woolgast, Prussia.
Boy Ben
At 7.15 P.M.
on 19th September, when a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.W. accom- panied by a rough sea, the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired signals denoting that a vessel was in distress, and about the same time a...