By C. V. FABRICIUS, Manager of the North Jutland Life-Boat Institution.
THE Danish Life-Boat Institution, as at present organised, was established by the Act of 26th March, 1852.
It is an institution...
Category: Articles
SEPTEMBER 26TH. - RAMSGATE, AND MARGATE, KENT. A Halifax aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but it had come down on the Belgian coast.- Rewards : Ramsgate, £12 3s. 6d. ; Margate, £17 3s. 6d..
WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
Category: Services
After dark on the 1st of November, the Life-boat George Gay, in answer to signals of distress observed from Penarth, proceeded to the roadstead, where she found two vessels in collision; a strong breeze from the S.W. was blowing at the time,...
the RNLI's AGM and Presentation ot/ards The Barbican, in the City of London, was once again the venue for the RNLI's annual meetings - held this year on 15 May. The morning AGM allows the Chairman to present his review of the...
Category: Meetings
A detail from a painting by Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants, of the last moments of the Longhope life-boat before the seas lifted her up so that she was found hours later upturned..
Category: Drawings
X rare chance to see five FtNLI lifeboats together. The occasion was a visit by the Dutch lifeboat sen/ice on 13 January.
L-R; Relief fleet Tyne class lifeboat Good Shepherd, Arbroath Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THURSDAY, 1st Oct., 1874 -. ; THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of One previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
OBVERSE.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...
Category: Medals
OCT. 2 5 T H . - REDCAR, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.32 P.M. a message was received from the Saltburn coastguard that a resident at Skinningrove had seen three red flares showing well out to sea. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...