LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mayfly
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER WITH CREW SEASICK Cromer, Norfolk. During the afternoon of the 29th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Sheringham that a cabin cruiser southward bound was flying...
Windermere
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.15 on the morning of the 26th of October, 1954, the Cobh Pilots reported that the three-masted schooner Windermere, of Dublin, had hove to with an engine breakdown, and had asked if the life- boat would escort her...
A Gallant Girl and Four Gallant Boys
ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages...
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Bradley
At 4.30 A.M. on the 17th December, rockets and large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand; the Cockle Lightship was also firing guns and rockets.
As the wind was blowing from the S.E., and it was ebb tide, it...
Renown
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 21st February the steam drifter Renown, of Yarmouth, with a crew of nine hands, was making for Penzance Pier, in a fresh breeze and rough sea, when she took the ground about a cable's length from...
Sophia
DUNBAR, N.B.—On the 27th February, at about 8 A.M., a small vessel was seen riding at anchor in comparatively shallow water, with a signal of distress flying, about five miles E. of Dunbar. The Lifeboat Wallace put off to her assistance, and...
An Aeroplane (79)
OCTOBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.51 in the evening the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in Yarmouth Roads to the east of Nelson’s Column. The aeroplane was a bomber which, by mistake, had been shot down by our...
Union Star
THE LOSS OF SOLOMON BROWNE AND HER CREW, DECEMBER 19, 1981PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1...
Swimming
FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...
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Annual Report. 1894
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town. Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1894, His GRACE THE DUKE or WESTMINSTER, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports