LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ice, wind and snow
When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …
Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...
Category: Articles
Ros Airgead
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1959, a message was received from Valentia radio that the trawler Ros Airgead of Dublin was drifting with a trawl foul of her propeller seven miles west of Bray Head. At...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
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Category: Advertisement
Lifeboats from Some of the Participating Nations Rafted Up In the Oslo Fiord
Lifeboats from some of the participating nations rafted up in the Oslo fiord. The RNLI's Arun class Duke olAtholl is second from the left, and on the extreme right is one of the classic Norwegian Colin Archer-designed sailing lifeboats -... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Balcary Point, in Auchencairn Bay, on the coast of Kirkcudbright, which is considered to be an excellent position whence a Life- boat can...
Category: Articles
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church Oystermouth Commemorating the Loss of the Eight Crew of the Lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales on Apr
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church, Oystermouth, commemorating the loss of the eight crew of the lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales on April 23, 1947, on service to ss Samtampa, was unveiled on May 6 by the Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. W. Fortescue Barratt, Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
Mr. W. Fortescue Barratt, the Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, died suddenly on March 26th last, at the age of 73. He had spent the greater part of his life as a civil servant in the Exchequer and Audit Department of...
Category: Obituaries
Strong to save
Grace Darling was a woman of courage and determination, and it was those same characteristics – now woven into the fabric of the RNLI – that encouraged Lena Howells to become the first female member of Angle Lifeboat Station in 2007, at the...
Category: Articles
Charles Livingstone
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
"The Life-Boats Must Not Go Short." A Subscription Multiplied a Hundred Times
DURING the financial crisis of this autumn, both before and since the General Election, the Institution has received many letters from subscribers which can best be summarized in the words of one subscriber, who, in sending her usual two...
Category: Correspondence