LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Olinka
KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...
A Dinghy (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3.25 p.m. on 22nd September, 1965, the motor mechanic reported that a dinghy had capsized in the estuary and that her crew were having difficulty in baling her out. At 3.39 the mechanic reported that the dinghy...
Stingray
Rhyl, Flintshire. On 5th December, 1965, the coastguard reported that four vessels appeared to be sheltering under the lee of Penmon Head opposite Old Colwyn and that one of the vessels was drifting. A watch was kept and the motor fishing...
Inaugural Ceremonies: Ireland
A GREAT crowd, reverently absorbed in one of the most beautiful and significant ceremonies associated with the progress of civilization; the aged Bishop of Cloyne, a grand figure, clothed in the dignity of the episcopal robes and ad-...
Category: Inaugurations
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
INDEX TO THE LIFE-BOAT STATIONS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Thefigures refer to the numbers of the life-boats detailed on pages 42-53.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 167. Drogheda, Ireland, 265. Littlehaven,...
Category: Articles
Disasters of Sixty and Fifty Years Ago. The Recollections of Eye-Witnesses
SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
Category: Articles
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies (1)
EIGHT new motor life-boats were named during the summer of 1949, two on the English coast, at Swanage and East- bourne, three on the Welsh coast, at New Quay (Cardigan), Barmouth, and Porthdinllaen, two in Northern Ireland, at Portrush and...
Category: Inaugurations
On the High Seas
ALTHOUGH the work of the Institution is to succour those in peril from shipwreck round our coasts, it is well that we should never forget the perils of those on the high seas, the gallant rescues performed there, and the long suffering which...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat In the Antarctic
Ix 1946 Colonel Niall Rankin, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S., F.R.G.S., of Calgary, in the Isle of Mull, went out to the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic.
He sailed in October in a whale factory ship, taking with him a motor...
Category: Articles