LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
General Gordon
The fishing smack General Gordon, of Lowestoft, grounded on the Cross Ridge shortly before 5.30 P.M. on the 1st August, and the St. Nicholas Light-vessel commenced to fire signals. The crews of the Nos.
2 and 3 Life-boats...
S.S. Accomac
JANUARY 31ST. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 9.33 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking a mile E.S.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with thick fog, and the sea was...
New Films Available
Three new films are now available to branches. All are in colour and 16 m.m.
sound.
One of the new films. From Baltimore to Littlehampton, which runs for 12 minutes, tells the story of how the 44-foot...
Category: Articles
Crew Strengths
The Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I. have decided that the authorised full crew of all conventional life-boats shall in future be seven. Until now the authorised crew of wooden life-boats of over 41 feet in length was...
Category: Committee
Bikeathon
James Danvers, ten year old son of llford branch chairman Paul Danvers, suggested to his little sister Emily, that they help dad raise funds by entering the llford Recorder Bikeathon. This year's Bikeathon, organised by local the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Days In 1948
IN 1947 the Institution held 859 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,154,000, and the sum given was £87,920.
That was 42 more days than in 1947, but the number who gave fell by nearly 400,000 and the sum...
Category: Donations
Poole - South Division
Poole - home of RNLI Headquarters - boasts the second largest natural harbour in the world. The station's lifeboats are situated off the quay - just by Poole lifting bridge, shown up in the main photo, on the crown of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Irish Coxswain's Third Medal.
Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, who has already won the Institution's gold and bronze medals, has now won its silver medal for saving an Irish steamer and her crew of 35 men. The steamer's engines had failed and heavy seas...
Category: Articles
Dronning Sophie
RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY..—The Norwegian barque Dronning Sophie was seen to be in distress in Carnarvon Bay, and fast drifting to leeward, while the wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.W., and a very heavy sea was running, on the 7th October...
New Choice
Longhope, Orkney.—At about 9.20A.M. on the 1st July information was received by telephone from Torness that a trawler was ashore. A moderate easterly wind was blowing. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.
The...