LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Means of Saving Life
The extent of the means for saving life at present is comprised in the following meagre statement, which we copy from the Northumberland Report*:— " In Scotland, with a seaboard of 1,500 miles, there are eight life-boats: at...
Category: Articles
Obituary of the Years of the War, 1939 to 1945
DURING the war over 200 honorary workers and friends of the Institution died. Among them were three members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, killed in an aeroplane accident on active service, H.R.H....
Category: Obituaries
News
A picture paints a thousand words Getting timely and dramatic images of the lifeboat service to the media is crucial to raising awareness. The RNLI is now investing in new cameras at selected lifeboat stations to bring the heroic work of the...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 17th Aug., 1854. A Special Meeting of the General Committee was held this day. His Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., President, in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the previous...
Category: Committee
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Bather in difficulty HUMBER COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Mablethorpe lifeboat station at 1634 on Friday August 19, 1983, that a bather was in difficulty at Theddlethorpe, about three miles to the north of the station....
A Salmon Coble
Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the relief 48ft 6in Solent...
Your Letters
Lanzarote lifesavers I shot these photographs in Playa Blancha, Lanzarote recently - the only lifeboats I saw in the Canary Islands! You are welcome to use them to illustrate foreign lifeboats.
Michael Osbaldston South...
Category: Correspondence
Ceremonies
Saturday 16 October 1993 saw the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Mersey class Girvan lifeboat Silvia Burrell, a truly remarkable occasion for the lifeboat community of Girvan, as well as the famous Burrell family. Around...
Category: Inaugurations
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ST. DAVID’S FEBRUARY 28TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 9.20 in the evening the police telephoned to the life-boat station that a man was trapped somewhere up the cliffs near Llanunwas, Solva. The honorary...
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INVERGORDON, ROSS-SHIRE. On the 21st of August, 1946, the Invergordon and Balblair motor ferry boat was on a run to Invergordon when, at 4.20, she saw a naval whaler capsize. A north-east wind was blowing against the ebb tide and raising a...
Category: Services