LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Lloyd of Carnarvon & Brigantine Rebecca, of Carnarvon
On the morning of the 19th March the schooner Man/ Lloyd, of Carnarvon, came into Fish-guard Bay, and anchored in a very exposed part of it. In the afternoon, the wind sud- denly shifted to the N.N.E., and blew a terrific gale, the sea soon...
In Memoriam. Admiral John Ross Ward
BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...
Category: Obituaries
Saving Life from Shipwreck In Denmark
THE Danish Life-saving service is con- centrated in one department under the Government, and not as in this country, divided between the Government and the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a charitable society incorporated by Royal...
Category: Articles
'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
Category: Articles
Austrums, of Riga
Fourteen Launches in One Day.
Two Services by the Ramsey, Isle of Man, Life-boat.
ON January 26fch last there were severe gales all round the coast, and fourteen Life-boat launches took place at Montrose,...
Stormy Stan Says...
Stormy Stan, the hero of 'Storm Force', the RNLI's club for the under-16s, appears regularly in the club's magazine Storm Force News. Here is a taster of the tales he spins and the advice he gives to young...
Category: Articles
A Winter Passage In a Motor Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1935 64,159 A Winter Passage in a Motor Life-boat.
By Mr....
Category: Articles
Sarah K.
Engine room flooded THE COXSWAIN of Wells lifeboat was informed by HM Coastguard at 1412 on Friday November 20, 1981, that there was a possible casualty 2Vi miles north of Brancaster, and the coxswain immediately passed on to the station...