LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH SUNDEHLAND.— At 2 P.M. on the 1st January 1901 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and brought ashore the Crew of four men of the ketch Pallas, of Jersey, which had stranded on the Longstone rock, where she became a total...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—On the 3rd April, 1882, at 11 A.M., the Bradford Life-boat proceeded, to the East Goodwin Light vessel, which was firing signal guns. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the E. and there was a thick fog. On arriving at the...
Category: Services
Loss of Life on the East Coast of Scotland
ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...
Category: Articles
"S.O.S.": A Life-Boat Duologue
By Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N., Deputy-Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
Broadcast by Sir Gerald du Maurier and Miss Mabel Terry-Lewis.
[This duologue was broadcast by the British Broadcasting...
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Coxswain Michael Grant Selsey
Coxswain Michael Grant, Selsey On September 9, 1983, Coxswain Grant rescued six from a grounded yacht, Enchantress of Hamble, in a southerly force 8 gale, darkness and large, breaking seas. The 48ft 6in Oakley class lifeboat Charles Henry... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th June 1878: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th November 1879
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
1st January to 31st March.
[Since September of last year the " News from the Branches " has been given in a more abbreviated form than before, but reference has been made to the work of many more Branches. To...
Category: Branches
Miss Hunt
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress being seen in the bay, the No. 1 Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 9.10 P.M.
on the 25th January, while a strong gale from N.E. was blowing with severe squalls, a heavy sea, and snow....
Olympic Yachting Gold Medallist Reg White Visited the Rnli Stand at the Midland Boat Show Birmingham During the Show from February 24 to March 6 More Than 1
Olympic yachting gold medallist Reg White visited the RNLI stand at the Midland Boat Show, Birmingham. During the show, from February 24 to March 6, more than 100 helpers from ten branches and guilds manned the stand to raise £2,096,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs