LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
September Meeting.
Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk.— A three-masted schooner, the Six Sisters, of Hull, was anchored...
Category: Services
Rescue from Coaster With Forty-Five Degree List
At 7.30 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1957, the honorary secretary of the New Brighton station, Captain G. Ayre, learnt from the Formby coastguard that the /. B. Kee, a coaster of 211 tons, of Castletown, Tsle of Man, was in...
Category: Services
The American Steamer Jonas Lie
J ANUARY 9 T H - ANGLE, AND ST.
DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. Both lifeboats were called to the help of the American steamer Jonas Lie, which had been torpedoed, off Grassholme Island, but they were recalled as all her crew had...
The Ramsgate Life-Boat: A Night on the Goodwin Sands
BY THE REV. J. GILMORE, M.A.* CHAPTER 1.
THE GOODWIN SANDS.
" GOD have mercy upon the poor fellows at sea!" Household words, these, in English homes, however far inland they may be, and...
Category: Articles
Dun Laoghaire September 201986:
Dun Laoghaire, September 20,1986: It was not only a D class inflatable lifeboat that was being handed over to Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station, but a boathouse as well. Sean Barrett, TD (left), Minister of State to the Taoiseach, on behalf of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th Aug. 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The RNLI and me: Nadia Sawalha
WHO IS NADIA SAWALHA?
Actor, writer and two-time marathon runner, Nadia Sawalha has appeared in films including Slave of Dreams and Clockwise, and is a regular face on TV. She is perhaps best known for her roles in soaps such as...
Category: Articles
A Corner In Cumbria: Workington Silloth and St.Bees Three Lifeboat Stations on the Solway Firth and Its Southern Approaches
THREE CUMBRIAN STATIONS, St BeeS, Workington and Silloth, complementing each other, are the guardians of the southern approaches to the Firth of Solway and of the firth itself, just as Kirkcudbright and Kippford guard the waters to the north...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Raymie Sinclair of Kirkwall was given a bottle of whisky to raffle for the lifeboats; £20 was raised but when the winning ticket was drawn no one could read the name on the ticket. The bottle was therefore raffled again and brought in a...
Category: Donations
Sea Flower
On the afternoon of the 15th, the gale then blowing very heavily, accompanied by squalls of rain, a vessel was seen driftii; g towards the shore at Donna Nook, which soon afterwards struck on the Hale Sand. The alarm was given at the...