LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1890-91
THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...
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The New U.S. 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat
The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
A Landing Craft (4)
DECEMBER 18TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. A landing craft was in distress, but she got ropes ashore by rocket and did not need the help of the life-boat.- Rewards, £21 12s. 6d..
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...
Category: Services
The Rialto and The Spes
At 6.30 P.M. on the 24th March during a S.S.W. gale, two fishing vessels, the Spes, of Brixham, and the Sialto, of Ramsgate, were wrecked at Newhaven. It was reported that a smack, whilst trying to make the harbour had struck to the eastward...
Opinion: What the Public and Press Say...
THE R.N.L.I., as a result of the Fraserburgh inquiry, has been widely discussed in the press and debated on television. Many letters have been received at headquarters, including a large number following the Public Relation Officer's...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—At 9.5 A.M.
on the 20th August information was received...
Category: Services
A U.S.A. Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.
Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....