LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1875-6
A perusal of the Annual Wreck Register recently issued for the year commencing on the 1st July, 1875, and ending on the 30th June, 1876, is by no means encou- raging. The wrecks and casualties which it so minutely and accurately chronicles...
Category: Articles
City of Waterford
HELICOPTER AIDS RESCUE At 9.30 a.m. on i2th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel City of Waterford of Dublin, six miles southwest of St. Catherine's Point, was on fire and that the crew of...
Twenty-Four Hours In the Life-Boat Service
THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.
Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued ...
Category: Services
Past and Present
100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...
Category: Articles
The New Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ONE of the first Life-boat Stations to be provided with, a Motor Life-boat was Stromness, in the Orkneys. It was in 1903 that a Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat was first converted to motor-power.
This Boat was followed by two...
Category: Inaugurations
The Annual Meetings 2000
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 18 May 2000, once again took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The morning AGM allowed Chairman David Acland, who retires at the end of July, to...
Category: Meetings
Life support
Their fundraising roots lie in the 19th century, but today’s branches continue to attract new members and raise millions of pounds. How do they do it?
From the first Lifeboat Saturday street...
Category: Articles
American Connection: the Naming of Two Atlantic 21 Lifeboats American Ambassador at Atlantic College and Spirit of America at Hunstanton
Atlantic College Atlantic College is a remarkable place in many respects. Housed in St Donat's Castle, built in the fifteenth century, it is perched on rocky slopes which tumble down to the waters of the Bristol Channel. Within the...
Category: Inaugurations
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TWO CHILDREN ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 24th November, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that there were two sick children who needed hospital treatment. One had appendicitis and the other had a dangerous cut on his leg. As no...
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AUGUST 11TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Two women and a child were marooned on rocks between Tresaith and Penbryn Sands by the tide, but they decided to remain until the tide went out, and the life-boat was recalled. -...