LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at...
Category: Services
The Admiralty Drifter No. 634
JANUARY 10TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel firing lights and signalling SOS at the entrance to Wells harbour. A strong north-by-west wind was blowing with a heavy swell...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1875 : His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., President of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...
Category: Committee
The lifesaving craft
Anyone who thinks the world of Freemasonry is shrouded in mystery and self-service obviously didn’t get a taste of OrangeAid. Alluding to the distinctive RNLI lifeboat livery, the OrangeAid appeal saw Essex members of the United Grand Lodge...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In June, July and August, 1951. 116 Lives Rescued
DURING June life-boats went out on service 39 times and rescued 27 lives.
HOPE FOR THE FISH HARVEST Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing...
Category: Services
The Supply Chain Team and Colleagues at the End of 'Day One'
The supply chain team and colleagues at the end of 'day one'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mail Steamer St. Sunniva
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Meetings of the Committee
Tuesday, 6th May, 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
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Flamborough and Filey, Yorkshire - At 3.20 p.m. on 9th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliff about two miles north west of the life-boat station. The IRB stationed at Filey was...
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services