LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hansy
At about 3 o'clock on the 3rd November the Norwegian ship Hansy, of about 1,500 tons, bound for Sydney with a cargo of timber, was wrecked at Penolver, owing to a south-west gale and heavy sea.
The coastguard with the...
Rheinland
During a severe gale from the E.S.E. and a heavy sea, at 1.20 P.M.
on the 4th December, the barque Rheinland, of Hamburg, laden with timber, was being towed to the Tyne Harbour by the steam-tug Skylark. On arriving within...
A Yacht (1)
Wicklow—13th May, 1939. A yacht had run on the rocks, but all attempts to refloat her failed.—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
FREE PASSAGE OF AIR into engine room and cabins of a motor boat under way is essential to both machinery and man.
Without it, engines cannot run and the well-being and efficiency of the crew would soon be impaired. It...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
The skippers of Aberdeen trawlers who are rewarded by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland when they recover tagged fish give their rewards to the R.N.L.I. They direct the Department to send the money to the honorary...
Category: Donations
Launching Ceremony at Whitby. From "The Whitby Gazette."
SHORTLY after the commencement of the war, the finely-equipped Red Cross hospital ship Rohilla, belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Co., whilst proceeding on an errand of mercy to France, went ashore at Saltwick Nab, about a mile...
Category: Articles
Dosinia
DEC. 21ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. Information was received shortly before 2 A.M.
from the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine near the Haisborough Light-vessel.
A light southerly wind was blowing, with...
Chindwyn V
At 2.40 p.m. on 13th July, 1968, the coastguard informed the acting honorary secretary that a motor boat had fired flares three miles west of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.47 in a fresh south...
First Prize for Sheffield Schoolgirl
ELIZABETH LAVINIA MAXFIELD, of North and South Anston County Pri- mary School, North Anston, Sheffield, won first prize in the competition for the best essay on the life-boat service organized by the Institution.
The...
Category: Articles
Show of strength
The RNLI's history is full of dramatic twists and turns – and Alan Tyson's mission to weave them into a play is an interesting yarn in itself
‘Now hear ye all of this, good men of Bamburgh,’ shouted the cloaked man...
Category: Articles