LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Salvage Regulations
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is a charitable institution, incorporated by Royal Charter, for the purpose of saving life from shipwreck.
As however a rigid adherence to the precise object of the Institution...
Category: Committee
A Big Increase In the World's Shipping
THE new volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping which have just been published record the very interesting fact that during the past year the total tonnage of the world has been increased by 408,540 tons, nearly three times as big an...
Category: Articles
Ocean Starlight
At 5.30 a.m. on 5th February, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel, while leaving Stornoway harbour, had stopped rather suddenly and drifted out of sight under the land inside Helm Head.No distress signals, however, had been seen or...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PADSTOW.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently sent a large Life- boat to Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall, to take the place of a smaller one forwarded there some years since.
The new boat is 34 feet long...
Category: Articles
Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...
Across the Waves...
Across the waves...
RNLI fundraisers all the way from the Falkland Islands visited Bishop's Waltham branch in August last year and presented a cheque for their most recent box collection, and a special 'I plaque.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Girl Betty
ROLLING HEAVILY Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.40 a.m.
on I4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Girl Betty of Peterhead was ashore on Proudfoot at the north entrance of Wick Bay....
The Henrietta
HARWICH.—At 6 P.M. on the 25th April, it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the Cork Sand. The Life-boat Springwell was immediately launched, and arrived at the Sand at about 8 P.M. The stranded vessel proved to be the Henrietta, of...
Dizzy Dunlop and Caboceer
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—During a dense fog on the 6th of April it was reported that a schooner was in distress on Atherfield Ledge. The crew of the Life-boat Worcester Cadet were summoned, and at 8.55 P.M. the...
William and The Rosa Marion
WHITBY.—At about 3 P.M. on the 11th January the wind blew a moderate gale from the E.N.E. with a heavy sea, and four fishing-cobles which had gone out in the morning were seen returning. As the wind and sea were increasing the foremost boat...