LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (74)
AUGUST 9TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. Owing to its engine failing, a R.A.F. Spitfire aeroplane crashed into the sea, but a naval vessel picked up the body of the pilot. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d.
Celestina
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At daybreak on the 30th January the barque Celestina, of Fiume, which had been riding in the bay for some days, was seen dismasted but riding easily at her anchor. Subsequently signals were shown, and, in response to...
Services of Life-Boats
RAMSGATE.—On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commissioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbourtug Aid, there being a fresh wind...
Category: Services
Boat Sailing and Sails
IT might be objected that remarks in the nature of hints or suggestions on boat sailing are " coals to Newcastle" to those who manage the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to a considerable extent such...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats and Anarchy
THE association between the RNLI and Russian anarchists may appear to be an unlikely one. Nevertheless, perhaps the greatest of the Russian anarchists, Prince Peter Kropotkin, was a profound admirer of the life-boat service in this country....
Category: Articles
Turpina
Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy. There was no sign of...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of this excellent Institution, established for the purpose of relieving, by food, clothes, and money, shipwrecked sailors of all nations cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held last summer at the...
Category: Meetings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...
Category: Articles
Publicity and Propaganda In Scotland. Formation of a Scottish Council
FOR some considerable period the Committee of Management have felt that the organisation in Scotland of our appeal for funds to carry on the Life-boat Service has not been effective, and that, as a result, the amount raised in that part of...
Category: Committee
Portrush: Pulling and Sailing to Fast Afloat Arun By Joan Davies
AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
Category: Articles