LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In celebration of 2010
On 19 May 2011, the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting heard about the charity’s key activities from 2010, and the Annual Presentation of Awards recognised the outstanding achievements of lifesavers, fundraisers and...
Category: Articles
Antegua, of Greenock
On the 16th October a vessel was observed from this station riding out a gale in Cardigan Bay, with main and mizenmasts and top- masts gone, and a signal of distress flying.
The Life-boat Nelson was soon launched ; but,...
Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith
At mid- night on the 20th January, during a heavy gale from E.S.E., the schooner Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith, was observed dragging her anchors, in a very dangerous position off this place. The Royal Berkshire life-boat was immediately manned...
Forecasts of Weather
By VICE-ADMIRAL E. Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
THE Life-Boat Journal having aided practical meteorology, the following memorandum, ' as a general answer to numerous observations and questions, may interest its readers: j and as...
Category: Articles
Some Unpublished Letters of Sir William Hillary, Bt
His Efforts to Interest the Admiralty in his Scheme for a Life-boat Service.
By Major Evan W. H. Fyers, Member of the Major Fyers, to whose researches we owe the discovery of these very interesting letters of Sir William...
Category: Articles
The Rescue of Three Fishermen. A Gallant Service off Folkestone
A Gallant Service off Folkestone.
ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...
Category: Services
Ribhinn Og
Shortly before midnight on the 14th February, the Tolsta post office telephoned that two local fishing boats were in distress off Tolsta Head, which is about twenty- two miles by sea north of Stornoway.
A strong west wind...
See Wee
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 4.24 a.m. on 16th March, 1969, it was learnt that the motor boat See Wee, with three men on board, on passage from Llandlwyn Island was overdue. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was...