LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
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Life-Boats for the Coast of Scotland
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which has already numerous Lifeboat Stations on the English and Irish Coasts, is desirous to extend its work of usefulness to the Coasts of Scotland, that every part of the United Kingdom may be...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Life- boat Jones Gibb put off at 8.15, and on...
Category: Services
Testing her mettle
The new RNLI memorial sculpture at Poole encapsulates the charity’s heritage and purpose – but who is behind its design?
It’s 7am and there’s a salty breeze blowing across the flats of Sittingbourne at the edge of...
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The Prevention of Wrecks and Saving Life from Shipwreck
WE have on different occasions in this Journal remarked on'what we conceived to be the imperfection, when taken as a whole, of the present system for rescuing shipwrecked persons from drowning; that whilst, in some localities, most...
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The Fishing Clipper, of Yarmouth
At 11 P.M., on the 24th January, 1868, guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Light Vessel, and lights of distress were seen in Yarmouth Roads. The large life-boat was at once got out, but the gale was so strong, and the weather so thick and...
The S.S. Suffolk, of London,
LlZARD AND CADGWITH. The S.S. Suffolk, of London, 2,900 tons, bound from Baltimore for London, with a cargo of flour, tobacco, &c., and having a large number of cattle on board, struck the rocks at the Lizard Head during a dense fog at 4...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
The S.S. Radwinter, of London
JUNE 27TH. - ANGLE, AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 10.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Angle that Seaforth Radio Station had picked up an SOS message from the S.S. Radwinter, of London. She had struck bottom a mile south of...