LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
'1974 —A YEAR OF TRIUMPH' — His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, President RNLITHE WORD WHICH SEEMS to have been most readily used by people describing the RNLI's annual general meeting in 1975 was 'moving'. On page 30 we...
Category: Meetings
The RNLI Headquarters Site Overlooking Holes Bay, Poole Harbour
the RnLI Headquarters site overlooking Holes bay, poole Harbour Photo: Sue Siegar. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (23)
MAY 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea S. by E. of Shoreham Harbour, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
Tubular Life-Boat
UNDER the above designation, a " life-boat," or what would be more correctly termed a life-raft, has been constructed by two public- spirited gentlemen, the Messrs. RICHARDSON, of Aber Hirnant, Bala, North Wales, and navigated from...
Category: Articles
July (1)
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE. About 7.30 in the morning of the 26th of April, 1943, a dinghy belonging to the R.A.F. Rescue Service (Maintenance and Repair) Unit, with seven men on board, capsized in deep water between 20 and 30 yards from the...
Category: Services
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1858
Oct. 23, 1857.—A Norwegian barque was seen in distress during stormy weather on Hasboro' Sands. A fishing-lugger's crew picked up, with some difficulty, the ship's crew of 9 men, who had taken to their boat.—Reward,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1939
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The Life-Boat Journal
The Life-boat appears again after an absence of just seven years. Its last number was dated April, 1940. In that month Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. At the end of the next month the British Expeditionary Fotce was brought off from the...
Category: Articles
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1870.
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Category: Articles
The S.S. Ben Rein
On the 25th October the s.s. Ben Rein, of Ramsey, sheltering in Caldey Roads while on passage from Penarth to Milford, began to drag her anchors and signalled for help. A strong S.W. breeze was blow- ing, with a heavy sea, and the weather...