LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ullen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
Category: Services
Rnli news
Look and learn Thousands of people visited Poole Headquarters during Open Days in July. Holidaymakers who knew little or nothing about the RNLI came away with a elear picture of the role of the modern lifeboat service. Those who have been...
Category: Articles
Matam II
French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...
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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
Message from the Duke of Kent
At the annual meeting, held on loth. July, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, read a message from H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institution, in which His Royal Highness said: "I want to convey my...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-ninth Annual General Meeting of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the Eolian Hall, New Bond Street, S.W. 1, on Tuesday, 17th April, 1923, at 3 p. m., Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Beatty, G.C.B., O.M. (First...
Category: Meetings
Reine des Anges
At 4 A.M., on the 13th September, flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded over the sands through the breakers, in the direction in which the lights had been last seen; but no...
Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
Category: Services
Right: Hfth the Duke of Kent Visits Conwy Lifeboat Station
Right: HftH The Duke of Kent visits Conwy lifeboat station and is pictured with some of the crew members, together with station honorary secretary Keith Robinson (far right). - View image in PDF
© Karl Roberts. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fox
MAEGATE, KENT, and HARWICH, ESSEX. — At 11.30 A.M. on the 19th August information was received at Margate that a large vessel was ashore on the Longsand. The crew of the No. '2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were assembled, the Life-boat...