LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...
Category: Services
In Memory of a Ship's Cat
THE Institution has received a gift of £l 6s. from H.M.S. Stork, stationed at Penang, the result of a collection made among the ship's company in memory of the ship's cat, Tiger, which was lost overboard at sea..
Category: Donations
Holiday-Makers Watch the Naming of the New Aberystwyth Lifeboat Aguila Wren
(See page 437). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th Oct., 1870: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Meetings
Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Portham
On the 20th October, at 11.30 A.M., the Russian brig- antine Porthan, of Aland, bound from Oruskjoldsrik to Antwerp, being water- logged, and in danger of foundering at her anchors outside the entrance of the River Tees, slipped her cables...
The Record of 1926
1926 was, in. its weather, a normal year, with severe gales in October and November. During the year there were 269 launches of Life-boats on service, 65 more than in 1925, and 456 lives were rescued from shipwreck, 73 more than in 1925. Of...
Category: Annual Reports
A Detail from a Poster Published After World War I Showing Lifeboat Services to Ships Mined Torpedoed Or Wrecked As a Result of the War
detail from a poster published after World War I showing lifeboat services to ships mined, torpedoed or wrecked as a result of the war.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Capable
On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.
She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...