LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aida Lauro, of Naples
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed,...
A Silver Medal Service at Flamborough
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
A Swedish Presentation
THE Swedish Life-boat Society has awarded to the Institution its plaque of merit and two diplomas, each of which has this record: Swedish Life-boat Society pre- sents to the Royal National Life-boat Institution its plaque of merit for out-...
Category: Awards
Four Flying 15 Dinghies and One National 18 Dinghy
Dinghies capsize A NEAR GALE, south-south-westerly force 7, was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday July 26, 1986, when Mrs Helen Nicholson noticed that a number of sailing boats were in difficulty off Hook Lighthouse and Waterford...
Surfboards
Surfers saved in lightning rescue dashAs senior helmsman Aubrey Diggle was leaving the boathouse on the morning of 23 February 2002, a surfer reported that two of his colleagues were being swept away. Looking out to sea, Aubrey instantly...
Remembering Rohilla
When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
Category: Articles
Y.L.A. Section
'STICK WITH IT' Mr. Peter W. Derham, assistant operational secretary of the Mudeford IRB, told a public meeting of the Christchurch, Hants, branch of the R.N.L.I. that a 'cardinal sin' of the sea was for anyone to leave their...
Category: Articles
Four Attempts to Go Alongside Yawl
ON the morning of the 1st June, 1961, Mr. E. R. Copeman, the honorary sec- retary of the Teesmouth branch, was travelling with his wife on the coast road towards Redcar when his wife noticed a yacht close inshore in broken water. Mr. Copeman...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...
Category: Articles
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