LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
CONDITIONS OUTSIDE LIMITS FOR D CLASS Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of...
Category: Services
The Aberdeen Fishing Boat White Squall
JANUARY 14TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. Information was received at 11.35 in the morning from the naval signal station on Davaar Island that a fishing boat was flying a signal of distress and drifting towards the shore. At 11.45 the motor...
Annual Report
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...
Category: Annual Reports
The Lifeboat Launches
The lifeboat launches to the scene of the incident.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thoughtful, of Sunderland
On the 11th January, the brig Thoughtful, of Sun- derland, bound from that port to London with coals, dragged her anchors, and came on shore during a gale of wind from the E.N.E. and heavy sea. The Yarmouth surf life-boat was quickly...
Y.L.A. Section
'STICK WITH IT' Mr. Peter W. Derham, assistant operational secretary of the Mudeford IRB, told a public meeting of the Christchurch, Hants, branch of the R.N.L.I. that a 'cardinal sin' of the sea was for anyone to leave their...
Category: Articles
Earl of Buchan
MARCH 27TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 9.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was showing signals for medical aid. A light southerly wind was blowing with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat Frank and William...
J. W.A., of Aberayron
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. — On the 15th October the No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perrott, was launched at about 2 P.M., during a whole gale from the W.N.W., signals of distrejs having been shown by the schooner J. W.A., of Aberayron, bound from...