LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
Dr. TROLLOPE, of Hastings, has forwarded the following interesting communication, in reply to a request from the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on a case of drowning which he successfully treated on the MARSHALL HALL method...
Category: Correspondence
A Yokel's Fair Organised Last July By Customers of the Black Horse Byworth Petworth— Licensee John Waldy—Raised T450 for the Rnll Held In the Grounds of the Inn And
A Yokel's Fair organised last July by customers of the Black Horse, Byworth, Petworth— licensee John Waldy—raised t450 for the RNLl. Held in the grounds of the inn and Roland Sailer's adjoining field, the programme included a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Service In the Pentland Firth
THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the...
Category: Services
Ole Sif, of Copenhagen
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 10.20 a.m. on I2th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground at Barony Point, Morvern. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 10.30 in a fresh north...
A Plaque Is Presented to the Head Girl of Bvrehall High School By David Jones
A plaque is presented to the head girl of Bvrehall High School by David Jones, RO(NW), as thanks for help given to the Wigan branch during lifeboat day. The senior pupils raised £120 in house-to-house collections.
In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
The Margaret
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—At 3 P.M. on the 8th March, a vessel was seen striking on the Flats, and showing signals of distress.
The crew of the Lily Bird Lifeboat mustered, launched their boat as soon as possible, and proceeded...
The Sebastian, of London
FEBRUARY 15TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
About 8.10 in the morning the Stornoway coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress in the neighbourhood of Glas Island, Scalpay, some forty miles away. She was the Sebastian,...
Presentations to honorary workers by the Chairman of the RNLI, Commander F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNVR (left to Mr David Chapel
Presentations to honorary workers by the Chairman of the RNLI, Commander F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNVR (left to right): Mr David Chapel (Arhroath), Mrs Graham Doggart (Selsey), Professor William Flexner (RNLI headc/ uarters), Mrs Teresa Smellie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs