LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Stuck between high cliffs and high seasFowey Lifeboats launched no fewer than 73 times last year - but few shouts were as dramatic as the one that led to the rescue of a family stranded on a nearby beach, fearing for their lives A camping...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 12th September, 1895.
Admiral Sir WILLIAM MONTAGU DOWELL, G.C.B., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
Feature: Heart of the Matter
There was a buzz in the Barbican on 19 May 2005 as RNLI Governors, crew, fundraisers and other supporters gathered for a day of reflection and celebration RNLI core supporters came from all corners of the UK and the Republic of Ireland to...
Category: Articles
The Building of Life-Boats
WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...
Category: Articles
Orsidi and Cap Lizard
TWO YACHTS TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.45 a.m. on Monday the 22nd of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that distress signals had been seen to the northward. At 1.10 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis...
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of lifeboat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FOLKESTONE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat station at Folkestone, in accordance with the wishes of the local residents, as an additional safeguard for life-saying pur- poses for that part of the coast, the...
Category: Articles
Harkaway and Wilhelmina
On the 14th November, at 2.30 P.M., the Life-boat proceeded to the brig Harkaway, of Shoreham, which was riding to the southward of the harbour with a flag for assistance. The Life-boat assisted to get a rope from her to a tug, and slipped...
Seabreeze
ANOTHER FISHING BOAT TOWED IN New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a vessel burning signals of distress three miles to the north of Aberayron. The pulli ng and sailing life-boat...
A Motor Launch and Foxfield
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch was being towed by the steamer Foxfield, and asked if the life-boat could meet the vessels off...