LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Carrickfergus, co. ANTRIM. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat station at Carrickfergus, on Belfast Lough, it being considered most important, in view of the great shipping...
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RNLI News
Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.
The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...
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A Small Boat
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1951, the son of an oldfisherman, formerly a life-boat second coxswain, reported that his father had left New Brighton stage in a small boat at seven that...
Virtual gifts make a real difference
Have you considered giving an RNLI virtual gift this Christmas?
Show your support for our lifesavers, and share the generous spirit of the festive season, by making a donation in a loved one’s name.
We...
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Runnelstone
The Lizard, Cornwall.—On the night of the llth July the steamer Runnelstone, of London, ran aground under Hot Point in a dense fog. She was bound, in ballast, from London to Swansea, and carried a crew of twelve.
Her SOS...
Vellums for Sunderland and Whitehaven
A VELLUM to mark the 150th anniver- sary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Sunderland was presented on the 6th of October, 1954, by Mr.
Arthur G. Everett, a member of the Committee of Management. The vellum was...
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Bountiful
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AGROUND Lerwick, Shetlands. At 11.45 on the night of the 3rd March, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Bountiful was ashore on the east side of Shetland Isle....
An Estonian Steamer and King Egbert
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should...
Mouette II
Mudeford, Hampshire. At approximately 1.50 p.m. on nth July, 1965, a boy saw a cabin cruiser capsize off Hengistbury Head. He ran to the nearest telephone at the Mudeford beach office, about half a mile away, and the IRB was launched...
Free Lance
JUNE 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
About 10.40 at night it was reported that the naval cadet boat Free Lance (a converted life-boat) was dragging her anchors north of New Brighton pier. A fresh westerly wind was blowing,...