LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Port Stanley
The large four- masted barque Port Stanley, of Glasgow, ran into Ballyheigue Bay, Co. Kerry, on 19th April, mistaking it for the mouth of the Shannon. Tie ship let go her anchors and saved herself from going aground, but remained in a...
Notes of the Quarter
THE tragic loss of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat was the worst disaster in terms of number of men lost since the Mumbles life-boat capsized with the loss of the whole of her crew in 1947. It occurred on the 8th of December, 1959,...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1891
OF all the Blue Books printed year by year for " Her Majesty's Stationery Office," probably not one communicates such deeply interesting information as that to be found in the volume containing the elaborate Tables drawn up and...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Scottish Police Sergeant
FOR his part in the rescue of three bathers off the Sutherland coast on the 10th August, 1967, Sergeant Andrew Lister of the Ross and Sutherland Constabulary has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
Category: Articles
Services of the Freemasons' Albert Edward Life-Boat
IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st January, 1880: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Obituary
WE regret to report two serious losses which the Committee of Management have suffered by the death, on the llth September, of Admiral of the Fleet the MARQUESS or MILFORD HAVEN, and, on the 14th August, of Sir EDWARD FEETHAM COAXES, BT.<...
Category: Obituaries
Hummona
Margate, Kent-At 2.21 a.m. on 7th June, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted in the Edinburgh Channel six to seven miles off Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
Nanta
CAHORE.—It was blowing a heavy storm from the S.E. on the 18th January, when the barque Nanta, of Lussino, bound from Glasgow to Trieste, was observed ashore on the Rusk Bank off the coast of Wexford.
The Life-boat Sir...