LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 21st February, 1924.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the Chair Decided to dose the Eastbourne No. 1 Life boat Station.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. Mr....
Category: Committee
The S.S. Leonidas S. Condylis, of Andros, Greece
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 8.40 in the morning the Ramsey coastguard reported a steamer in need of help off Douglas Head. A south-westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was very rough.
The motor life-boat...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
SATURDAY, 18th March, 1893.
The Annual General Meeting of the friends and supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE- BOAT INSTITUTION took place this day at St.
Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road,...
Category: Committee
Prince Lewellen & The Scotch Fishing Craft Victoria
In the early morning of the 6th September a tele- phone message was received stating that two steamers had been in collision about four miles to the southward of the Point, and that one was apparently sinking. The crew of the No. 1 Life-...
The Wreck Register and Chart
ONCE more we are in a position to present to our readers a review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1912, based upon the Abstracts of Shipping...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer S.S. Wakulla, of Los Angeles
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakulla, of Los Angeles, which had...
SSE support
We are now entering the third and final year of the RNLI’s partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).
SSE is committed to supporting the communities in which it operates. When work began on the Greater Gabbard...
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The Four-Masted S.S. Eider, of Bremen (2)
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June. 1906
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its very clear and valuable Annual Report—in the shape of a Blue Book—relative to the shipping casualties which occur on or near the coasts o) the United Kingdom. The recent issue deals with the...
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A £20,000 thank you - 65 years later
Richard Tookey was just 14 when Shoreham lifeboat crew rescued him and his family from their stricken yacht in 1948. Now the station has enough funds to fuel their lifeboat for 5 years after he donated £20,000 as a thank...
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