LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Billy Boy Annie
About 12.20 P.M. on the 10th February the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat observed the Billy-boy Annie, of Grimsby, being towed over the bar outward bound, when the tow-rope suddenly broke and the Billy- boy drifted rapidly towards the North...
Meetings of Committee, 1852
Thursday, 8th January, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed,— It was resolved, on an application from the Local Committee at Aldborough, Suffolk, to grant from...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter
SOME astounding figures have been recorded of the services of life-boats in 1961. The month of August this year was, for instance, by far the busiest month the service has ever known since it was founded 137 years ago. During the month...
Category: Articles
Portquin Bay Cornwall December 15 1979: Padstow Lifeboat the 48Ft 6In Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane Stands By the Greek Freighter Skopelos Sky In An Onshore Storm Gusting to H
Portquin Bav, Cornwall, December 15, 1979: Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane stands by the Greek freighter Skopelos Sky in an onshore storm gusting to hurricane force. photograph by courtesy of John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A fearful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss...
Category: Services
Mary Gabriel Second Lifeboat Presented to the Rnli By Major Gabriel Outside Guildhall London on Board Are Major Gabriel and Sir Hugh Wontner Lord Mayor of Lo
Mary Gabriel, second lifeboat presented to the RNLI by Major Gabriel, outside Guildhall, London. On board are Major Gabriel and Sir Hugh Wontner, Lord Mayor of London, with Commander D. B. Cairns (second from left), Chief of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tonnage Admeasurement. Report of the Royal Commission on Tonnage
FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...
Category: Articles
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Category: Articles
The Record of 1925
Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
Falmouth: the 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Elizabeth Ann Is Named at the Customs House Quay Photograph By Courtesy of 'Falmouth Packet'
Falmouth: The 52ft Arun lifeboat Elizabeth Ann is named at the Customs House Quay. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Falmouth Packet'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs