LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Life- boat...
Category: Services
Karemma Ashore After Her Crew of Five Had Been Taken Off By the 52' Barnett Lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on Her Last Service at Aberdeen Photograph By Courtesy of Aberdee
Karemma ashore after her crew of five had been taken off by the 52' Barnett lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on her last service at Aberdeen . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mayor of Pendle Councillor Peggy Heaton
Seventy years after the hospital ship Rohilla was driven ashore off the Yorkshire coast, a party of Whitby townspeople put to sea in Whitby's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, The White Rose of Yorkshire, to lay wreaths above the wreck. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The trawler Juniper aground on Papa Stour. photograph by courtesy of Dennis Coutts
The trawler Juniper aground on Papa Stour. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dennis Coutts. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Greek Cargo Ship Protoklitos
West Mersea and Clacton-on-Sea: The Greek cargo ship Protoklitos was at anchor in the Blackwater Estuary when, on Monday February 7, fire broke out in her engine room and spread to her accommodation. It was a very cold day with a strong...
The Competitive Trials of Life-Boats
THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 5 P.M. on the 21st August, an open out- board motor boat, with three men and...
Category: Services
The Duty of Watching the Coast for Casualties
THE exact position which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION occupies with regard to keeping a watch for casualties seems to be very little understood by the general public, the result being that on several occasions the Coxswains of...
Category: Articles
The Gales of May and June
THE winter of 1859-60 will command a mournful distinction in meteorological annals. Other winters may be found, perhaps, of equal severity and duration ; nor would it be difficult, we dare say, to produce examples of springs as backward as...
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ART OF THE SEA
Art can be a really personal and rewarding way to express your love of the coast. So we asked lifelong RNLI supporter and top artist Glyn Macey for his tips on creating maritime masterpieces
‘ When I was 12, our community...
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