LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fund Raisers
Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1869
THE Annual Wreck Register has made its appearance in the midst of two calamities which are nearly overpowering iN their vastness and destructiveness. The war which rages with such fearful havoc on the Continent of Europe, and the foundering...
Category: Annual Reports
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 13th April, 1899.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., in the Chair.
V.P., Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT WORKS INSIDE SURF LINE TO SAVE FISHERMEN Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 gale Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following...
Category: Services
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GOD HELP OTIS MEW AT SEA.
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, TO THE CREW? J' ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHElTrEr.SONS, . ROM THE 1ST JANUARY...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th April, 1868: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
February
FEBRUARY Launches 53 Lives rescued 22 FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Accidents
THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.
Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1871
THE Wreck Register for 1871 was issued by the Board of Trade on Oct. 14, and is, as usual, a very complete and ex-haustive document. It is supplemented, in the usual way, by most interesting charts, which have greatly helped us to analyze...
Category: Annual Reports