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Sethon

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.35 on the morn- ing of the 1st of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Sethon, of Fleet- wood, was ashore on the Black Rocks in Islay Sound. The life-boat Char- lotte Elizabeth put out...

Day's

Date: August 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 161

HARWICH.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Lifeboat in tow, went out on the morning of the 6th January, in a fresh gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cork...

Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Ceremony

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.

There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...

Category: Meetings

Past and Present

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

/n the 7 74 /ears of the RNLI's existence, only 1 19 gold medals for gallantry have been awarded. That in itself is a measure of how jealously the Institution guards the honour, reserving it for acts of bravery in circumstances beyond...

Category: Articles

A Canoe

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MARCH 18TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.

A canoe had capsized, but the two persons on board were drowned before the lifeboat could reach them. - Rewards, £19 11s..

Star of Bethlehem

Date: November 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 198

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.—The fishing coble Star of Bethlehem, of Scarborough, was seen some distance off the bay, on the morning of the 30th April, and, as the heavy sea then running'would render -it very dangerous for her to...

Father of forecast

Date: Spring 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 615 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2016

Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...

Category: Articles

Two More Life-Boats Requisitioned.

Date: September 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 13

In 1940 the fast motor life-boat at Dover was taken over by the Admiralty to be used in rescuing airmen brought down in the sea. The motor life-boat at Plymouth has now been taken over bv the Ministry of War Transport, and the Aberdeen No. 2...

Category: Articles

None

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

Stuck between high cliffs and high seasFowey Lifeboats launched no fewer than 73 times last year - but few shouts were as dramatic as the one that led to the rescue of a family stranded on a nearby beach, fearing for their lives A camping...

H.M. Drifter Golden News

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

FEBRUARY 9TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.45 A.M. the naval base reported a vessel in difficulties off the harbour entrance.

The weather was foggy, with a light northerly wind, and the sea was calm. At 9...