LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Legacies
LEGACIES play a great part in main- taining the Life-boat Service. All who wish to help in this way can include the following clause in their wills: / give and bequeath to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Preservation of Life...
Category: Donations
Ramsgate Crew Honoured
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
Category: Services
2012 - the year of the floods
RNLI lifeboats launched more than 8,000 times in 2012 in a year of poor weather and heavy rainfall. Despite the weather, our lifeguards helped more than 16,000 people.
Meanwhile, the RNLI Flood Rescue Team had their...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of die Institution's Expenditure was kid out in 1930.
£ s. d.
36 8 0 H ••— Construction and Repair of Life-boats, Carriages and Tractors.
16 0 0 — ...
Category: Accounts
The Great Gale of February, 1871
Memorial Service at Bridlington.
THIS year, as for many years past, Bridlington held a memorial service for the six Bridlington life-boatmen who lost their lives in the great gale of 10th February, 1871.
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat and a Dinghy
Two calls NEWTON AUXILIARY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Craster lifeboat station at 1100 on Saturday May 1 that three men had moored their fishing boat at Newton Haven, a few miles to the north of Craster, and, trying to row...
Fishing Cobles (2)
NEWBIGQIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 12th May towards the middle of the day the N.N.E. wind freshened and the sea became dangerously rough.
Several of the fishing cobles were at sea, and as four were known to be some miles...
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main ' body. The latter is formed of a keelway i and of side or bilgeways attached to the j...
Category: Articles
Bjornstjerna Bjornson
SOTJTHPORT, LAKCASHIKE.—Shortly before 12 o'clock on the night of the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the W.N.W., rockets were fired, and a bright light was shown by a vessel in distress.
With the utmost speed...
Life-Boat As Ambulance
ON 18th October the Motor Life-boat at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, saved a life, by acting as an ambulance. A girl of fifteen had developed acute appendicitis and an immediate operation was necessary. There is no hospital in the Isles...
Category: Articles