LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canadian's Legacy
IN December, 1928, the Institution received the following letter from Mill- brook, Ontario, Canada :— " In the Toronto, Can., Globe of Dec. 8th, I saw an interesting article about the work of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. I...
Category: Donations
A Gallant Girl and Four Gallant Boys
ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages...
Category: Articles
Anna Maria
GORLESTON.—On the11th November, at 7 P.M., the Life-boat Leicester went off to a vessel which was showing signals of distress in the roads, during a heavy gale from S.W. The vessel proved to be the brig Anna Maria, of Blyth, bound from...
Emergo III
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 4.45 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Emergo III, which had been carrying out survey work, had lost both anchors off Sizewell and had...
Frederik
MARCH 30TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.30 A.M. a small vessel was reported to be aground on Whitby Rock, but no distress signals had been made. Fishing boats leaving harbour had gone to her help. A strong northerly wind was...
Central Appeals Committee
ARRANGEMENTS are now well under way for a Midnight Matinee at the Victoria Palace, London, on Friday, March 8.
The committee responsible is working under the chairmanship of Lady Aitken.
By the time you...
Category: Committee
Drawing from Experience
Keith lli:ih hn, the ItNIJ's Senior Naval Arrhitn t. looks :it lifeboat development over the past 175 v. rs, Modern lifeboats are highly sophisticated craft with unique features which enable them to survive when lesser craft would be in...
Category: Articles
Cavalier
LOSSIEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 27th April, at 4. A.M., the Life-boat Bristol and Clifton put off, and rescued five men from the schooner Cavalier, of Lossiemouth, which had been driven ashore about fifty yards eastward of the old harbour. The wind...
Whippingham
The paddle steamer Whippingham, of South- ampton, while on a pleasure trip from Ryde to Bournemouth on the afternoon of the 5th September, was in difficulties through a defect in the paddle wheels and began to leak, when about six miles...
Thelma
The Life- boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after noon on the 19th August to the assistance of the pleasure coble Thelma, of Saltburn, which had put to sea with three persons on board. A N.W. gale suddenly sprang up, making the coble...