LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
July (1)
MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...
Category: Services
Three Motor Life-Boat Launches. Kingstown, Baltimore and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat appeared, the inauguration ceremonies of three new Motor Life-boats have taken place, of the Dunleary, at Kingstown— her splendid voyage from Cowes to Ireland was described by Commander Stopford C....
Category: Inaugurations
People and Places
Mr Rumbold serves up the winners Nicholas Smith, alias Mr Rumbold in the BBC television comedy programme 'Are You Being Served?', picked the winning tickets in the RNLI's 77th lottery on 30 April 1997.
Nicholas...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ISLE OF WHITHORN, N.B.—On the re- presentation of Divisional Officer, C. W. M. S. McKERLIE, Esq., of the Coast-guard, and the recommendation of the Inspector of Life-boats, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station on...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1900.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
Category: Articles
Notes on the Quarter
A NEW SETTING for the R.N.L.I.'s annual general meeting was the occasion for a major policy statement, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.G.B., D.S.O., took the opportunity of offering, to adapt an American political...
Category: Articles
Feature Bringing History Alive
When was the last time you visited a museum or a historic site? The best places are those that bring history to life, for children and adults. If the museum inspires you, not only will you have a great day out. you will leave knowing far...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service and Salvage
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
Category: Articles
The Ferry Speedlink Vanguard and Pirate Radio Ship Ross Revenge
January storm ON SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 1985, northnorth- easterly winds of force 9 to storm force 10 hit the east coast and at 1812 that evening a message was received from the Sealink roll-on roll-off ferry, Speedlink Vanguard, that she had...