LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Britains Pride, of Falmouth
On the night of the 24th January, the brig Britain's Pride, of Fal- mouth, went ashore on the South Brake Sand, near the Goodwin Sands. The Bradford life-boat was quickly manned and taken out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, and...
News of a Great Victory (From the Daily Telegraph)
NEWS of a great battle has reached the metropolis. The action was not fought on American soil; and, as far as we know, war has not broken out between Denmark and Germany; so that it cannot be of those incensed nations that we speak. The...
Category: Articles
Maid of Kent
RYE.—The night patrol reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel off the west end of Broom Hill on the 24th November. The crew of the Mary Stanford Life-boat were immediately assembled, and the Boat put off at 8...
Maid of Tire & Oxalis
On the same day the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham, stationed at Boulmer, was called out on two occasions, but the first time, when the schooner Maid of Tire, of Inverness, struck and sunk on the North Steel rocks the services of the...
The Motor Boats I'll Try and the Edward and Ernest
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.53 A.M. on the 20th November, 1938, several small motor boats with angling parties were out to the north of the harbour. The S. by W. wind was increasing and the sea was getting...
The First Service of the Lerwick Life-Boat
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...
Category: Services
Pwllheli: Lifeboat and Ilb on Exercise With a Helicopter from Raf Valley Which Works Closely With All Knli Stations In the Area Photograph By Courtesy of J Tulloch
Pwllheli: Lifeboat and ILB on exercise with a helicopter from RAF Valley, which works closely with all KNLI stations in the area. photograph by courtesy of J. Tulloch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Angelic Wings, of Piraeus
Humber, Yorkshire - At 11.25 a.m.
on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man aboard the m.v. Angelic Wings of Piraeus, which was anchored 12 miles south of Spurn lighthouse,...
In Memory of Dunkirk.
At the request of the vicar of St. George's Church, Ramsgate, the flag of the Ramsgate life-boat, which brought off 2,800 men of the B.E F. from Dunkirk, has been presented to the church. It has been consecrated and it will hang in the...
Category: Articles
Secretary of the Institution
THE Committee of Management, at their meeting on the llth August last, appointed George F. Shee, M.A., Secre- tary of the Institution in succession to the late Mr. Charles Dibdin. Mr. Shee was educated at Stonyhurst and at the University of...
Category: Committee