LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
January
JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...
Category: Services
Kate Agnes, of St Johns
On the 10th February, the barque Kate Agnes, of St. John's, N.B., came broadside on the beach near Irvine during a strong wind from W.N.W. The same life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and in two trips brought safely ashore the...
On her slipway at the Mumbles is 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No 31) which in the television series becomes Ennal's Point lifeboat Samuel Grail. photograph by courtesy of "South Wales Evening Post'
On her slipway at The Mumbles is 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No 31) which in the television series becomes Ennal's Point lifeboat Samuel Grail.
photograph by courtesy of "South Wales Evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of Committee
1st July. T. WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
At a Special General Meeting of the Institution, convened pursuant to advertisement, confirmed the alterations in the Rules and Regulations as adopted at the previous Special...
Category: Committee
1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
Category: Articles
Lifesaving through a lens
Sometimes, there is no better way to show the RNLI’s people and purpose than with a photograph
Lifeboat crew member and award-winning photographer Nigel Millard has devoted 2 years to capturing...
Category: Articles
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At ii p.m. on ist August, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretarythat a critically ill patient needed urgent hospital attention on the mainland.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 11.59 and...
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APRIL 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
Three airmen had baled out from an aeroplane, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 18s. 6d..
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MAY 17TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
An explosion and flares, probably connected with war activities, had been reported some ten miles off, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £16 10s..
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....