LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services In 1895
Lives saved.
Advance, steamer, of Glasgow ... 3 Alnwick, schooner, of Beaumaris. . 3 Amelie, brig, of Frederickstadt... 9 Andola, ship, of Andola 28 Andrada, barque, of Liverpool— landed 19.
Aneurin,...
Category: Services
Letters (Continued from Page 65)
where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence
Double Toil and Trouble
Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour
Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...
Category: Articles
Four Life-Boats Are Named. Countess Howe at Yarmouth
OVER a year after she was first introduced experimentally into the life-boat service, the 48-foot 6-inch Oakley prototype life-boat, The* Earl and Countess Howe, was named and dedicated at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
DURING the past year mounted charts showing the life-boat stations round the British Isles, with the signals to be used by vessels in distress, were sent to nearly ninety yacht clubs. It is proposed to continue the distribution of these...
Category: Articles
Kyle Rona
Barra Island, Hebrides.—During the night of the 31st October, 1938, a whole south-westerly gale sprang up, and the steamer Kyle Rona, of Glasgow, which was at anchor in the bay, lost one of her anchors and was in danger of being driven on...
Jacqueline and Trewarveneth
TRAWLER LOST PROPELLER At 4.10 p.m. on 26th November, 1965, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the Newlyn trawler Jacqueline had lost her propeller and that another trawler, the Trewarveneth, had attempted to give a tow but in...
Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham the New Director of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham, the new Director of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Albion and Esther
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a rough sea and squally weather, on the 3rd August, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Albion, of and from Buncorn, for the Yealm river,...
Rebecca and Mary
On the 20th February a large schooner was observed making for Liverpool, and she came to anchor about five miles off St.
Anne's. As there was a strong gale blowing from the north-west and a very heavy sea running, a...