LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Race In 1867
From a print in the possession of Mr. J. E. Hooper. Hon. Secretary of the Natural History Museum and Antiquarian Society of Penzance. The race was in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, between the Life-boats stationed at St. Ives,...
Category: Drawings
Caroline
On the 23rd February, the steam Lifeboat was called out by signals from the Formby and Crosby light vessels, and on reaching the latter found she had a shipwrecked crew on board. Their vessel, the schooner Caroline, of Fowey, had lost her...
Septimus
QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND. — Telegrams were received on the 12th March, stating that a vessel was ashore at Boche's Point, and that the Life-boat was required, other boats being unable to reach her on account of the heavy sea. The Quiver No. 3...
William, of Liverpool
On the 9th February, the schooner William of Liverpool ran ashore, during a heavy gale, a mile and a half west of Rhyl.
The tubular life-boat, stationed at Rhyl, was launched as soon as practicable, and proceeded to the...
Fearless
WINCHELSEA.—On the 28th January, at about 12.45 P.M., signals of distress were observed to be shown from a vessel opposite No. 31 Tower. The wind was blowing from the S.S.W., accompanied by thick rain, and a heavy sea was breaking at the...
Jessie, of Liverpool
The schooner Jessie, of Liverpool, was stranded off Rhyl, dur- ing a gale of wind from N.N.E., on the 22nd December. She had been observed running before the wind with masts gone and sails flying about in all...
3,697 RNLI RESCUE CRAFT LAUNCHES 1 July–30 September 2016
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Category: Articles
A Stained Glass Window Dedicated to the Lifeboat Service Was Unveiled at the Church of Scotland Crown Court London on April 21: It Shows a Pulling Lifeboat
A stained glass window dedicated to the lifeboat service was unveiled at the Church of Scotland, Crown Court, London, on April 21: it shows a pulling lifeboat going to the rescue of a steam tug and records the Institution's 150th... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year ended the 30th June, 1901, the Life-saving Estab- lishment of the United States embraced 270 stations, an increase of 1 as com- pared with the previous year. Of this total (270) 195 were situated on the...
Category: Articles
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles