LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nimrod
RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...
Inflatable Dinghies
Drifting out to sea, Helen Hunt thought her time was up Sandra and Helen Hunt, two women from Birmingham, were on holiday at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire on 1 September 2005. They were enjoying playing on their inflatable dinghies, until they...
Nick of time
A boat with its own fascinating RNLI history set out on a perfect day last Summer. Little did her crew know it was to be her last voyage …
‘We set off in ideal conditions – you couldn’t have...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain the Right Hon. Charles C. Craig, Mr. Norman Clark Neill, and Lieut.- Col. F. Rayner, D.S.O., T.D., as members of the...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Service In Ireland. The Governor-General of the Irish Free State and the Governor of Northern Ireland As Patrons
THE first Life-boat Station was estab- lished in Ireland, at Arklow, in 1826, two years after the foundation of the Institu- tion itself, and since then the Institution has continued to maintain the Life-boats on the Irish coast, where it...
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Fishing Boats (3)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland.—The fishing fleets of North Sunderland and Beadnell put out at about 5 A.M. on the 4th December for the fishing grounds, fifteen to twenty miles off shore. The weather was threatening, and...
Queen Louise
At 2 P.M. on the 6th May, the steamer Queen Louise, of Glasgow, carrying a crew of twenty-nine persons, stranded oi\ the rocks half a mile south of Seaham. There was a moderate N.E. wind blowing with a heavy ground swell, and this prevented...
The "Suevic."
The White Star liner Suevic has been sold to a Norwegian firm, and is to be converted into a floating whale-oil factory. It was from this 12,000-ton liner that Life-boats rescued 456 lives twenty-two years ago. On the night of 17th March,...
Category: Articles
Shandwick
At 6.10 A.M.
on the 14th February the coxswain heard a boat's siren making the SOS signal. He got in touch with Belhelvie coastguard and was told that a vessel was ashore about half a mile north of the Belhelvie...
Emma Sauber
— At 10.47 P.M. on the 25th January the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was drifting ashore at Carnalea, between Donaghadee and Belfast. A whole north gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and a snow blizzard. The motor life-boat...