LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mr Alastair Barrow, chairman of the Reading RNLI young enthusiasts, writes that they are all about 15 years old and for the last two years have been trying to raise the £1,000 needed to buy a 15-foot ILB. In this connection a sponsored...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1868
As the year rolls round, and in the midst of great storms, this sad tidings of disaster; at sea, the Wreck Register, makes its ap- pearance, and brings afresh to our recollec- tion the scenes of desolation witnessed on too many parts of our...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1898
Lives 1898. saved.
Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...
Category: Services
New Steel 70-Foot Life-Boat
A steel life-boat, which is the first of her kind to be built for the Institution, was completed at the yards of Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Ltd. of Scotstoun, Glasgow, in September. She is the first vessel to be built for the RNLI in steel,...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860....
Category: Medals
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1861
SHAKESPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat; but if he saw the leviathan steamers now coming up that channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not hold good in the present day. We do not...
Category: Articles
A Small Fishing Boat
During a moderate south-westerly gale and heavy sea on the afternoon of the 25th June, a small fishing-boat was observed about four miles to the east of Broadstairs with the crew making signals of distress by placing their jackets on oars....
The Eyes Have It
The eyes have it Whoever chose the model for the fold-out part of the front cover of the Lifeboat Spring 2002 issue did well.
The girl is immediately captivating and gives the image of enthusiasm and ability, but it is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Her Last Service
Channel Island Lifeboat to go to Cowes, the Jersey boat could not get a crew and the Institution asked the Guernsey boat to fetch her, That was on the 28th. When the Guernsey boat arrived at St. Helier in the evening German aeroplanes were...
Category: Articles
Classifieds
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