LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The "Lloyd's" Motor Life-Boat. Inaugural Ceremony at Cowes
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Stornoway, Island of Lewis, in the Northern Hebrides since 1887. Last year, owing to the increasing number of wrecks in the Southern Hebrides, it was decided to establish a Station at Barra Island, and...
Category: Inaugurations
The Danish Schooner Sylphiden
On the llth June the Danish schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov, at anchor in St. Austel Bay, drove into shallow and broken water; when, hoisting a signal of distress, the Institution's life- boat at Polkerris, near Fowey, proceeded to her...
Ford Motor Co. Ltd.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has 138 active lifeboat stations in Britain. There are 67 Fordpowered lifeboats and Ford engines are being used exclusively in the re-engining programme. The basic unit in the new glass-reinforced...
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the outer harbour at 10 P.M. on the 30th September last during stormy weather and a rough sea. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched, proceeded outside Salt Island, and found the brig- antine...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec., 1876
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
Category: Services
Atlantic Storms
" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...
Category: Articles
The Empire's Help.
Every overseas mail since the war began has brought gifts to the Institution from somewhere in the Empire, unsolicited gifts from people on whom the war must be making the same heavy demands as it is making upon us all. Those gifts have come...
Category: Articles
Clovelly to Atlantic College
RNL/ Sfyoreworks Manager Howard fticfy/ngs continues fy/s /oo/c at feboat stations around tfye coastur departure from Bude Haven early one morning in May brings back memories of all those old stories about the nefarious activities of...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legeud, " Royal...
Category: Medals
Boy Jimmy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat was returning to Cromer in his fishing boat, when another fishing boat, the White Rose, which had just put to sea, hailed...