LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
General Summary to the 16th Dec, 1865
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them . 444.
Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . . £1,570 18 11
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Category: Annual Reports
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Annual Presentation
blLVhK MkUALb FOR GALLENTRY Coxswain Peter Bisson, St Peter Port - 29 August 1992 Coxswain Bisson and his crew braved force 9 winds and 15-20ft seas to snatch six yachtsmen to safety from the Sena Sioria. During the rescue the yacht's...
Category: Awards
A Motor Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—llthNovember.
A motor boat bound for Rathlin Island was overdue, but arrived while search was being made for her.—Rewards, £14 19s. 6rf..
The New Boathouse at Hastings
The new boathouse at Hastings provides good accommodation for both Mersev and D class, together with good facilities for the viewing public at this popular holiday destination.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
An enjoyable experience While I was on holiday near Veryan last summer I enjoyed sailing by dinghy in Gerrans Bay. However on July 18, when I had the outboard motor on the boat, the motor failed and I was driven on to the rocks at Nare Head....
Category: Correspondence
Two Boats
Wading neck high TWO SMALL BOATS trying to enter Cullercoats Bay were seen at 1645 on Saturday April 14, 1979, by ILB Crew Member Christopher Blackman, aged 19, and his 16-year-old friend Jeffrey Storey.
It was a fine day...
An Aeroplane (59)
AUGUST 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7 A.M. warning was received from the coastguard of an impending air fight. The wind was N.W. and moderate, with a smooth to moderate sea. At 12.15 P.M. an aeroplane was reported down off...
Mrs Barbara Wentworth Central London Women's Committee Has Given the Mirror Dinghy She Won at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball Last December to Samuel Lithgow Bo
Mrs Barbara Wentworth, Central London Women's Committee, has given the Mirror dinghy she won at the Lifeboat and Mermaid ball last December to Samuel Lithgow Boys'" Club. At a handing over ceremony in Regents Park last May, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
PIER FISHERMAN SWEPT TO SEA
HARTLEPOOL | 21 MARCH
Washed 20m out to sea and battered by a heavy swell, one angler owes his life to RNLI volunteers who were on exercise nearby. Hartlepool’s Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The Price of Fish In London
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As so many of the gallant men who are ever ready to man the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION belong to the hardy fish- ing population of our coasts, I have...
Category: Correspondence