LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Paul Boyton
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—On the 20th September, at about 12.30 A.M., the ship Paul Boyton, of Yarmouth, N.S., 1097 tons, bound from Baltimore to Hamburg with a cargo of maize, went ashore on the Goodwin Sands during a fresh wind from the W....
The Late Mr. Charles Clifford
THE gentle CHARLES CLIFFORD, who, after years of severe suffering, passed away a short time since, deserves a few words in service on occasions when life-boats unassisted | the great value of his invention for Lowering " 'The...
Category: Obituaries
Thompson, of Whitby
On the 4th January, at 9 A.M., the brig Thompsons, of Whitby, in endeavouring to get into the harbour at Scarborough, missed the entrance and was driven on shore, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the eastward at the time. The Scarborough...
Annual General Meeting, 1911
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., C.B., IN THE CHAIR.
1. Annual Report.
Speaker— The Eight Hon. the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., C.B.
Honorary Secretaries, Treasurers, and...
Category: Meetings
Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
MARINE AUXILIARII for LIFE-BOAT STATIOh Six-ton "Above Ground" type of electrically driven capstan supplied to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for hauling in the life-boat at Walmer Life-boat...
Category: Advertisement
Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick
Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick joined the crew in 1965, and was reserve mechanic from 1966 to 1967. He then served as mechanic until his appointment as coxswain/ mechanic in 1979.
Hewitt was awarded a bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
2012 - the year of the floods
RNLI lifeboats launched more than 8,000 times in 2012 in a year of poor weather and heavy rainfall. Despite the weather, our lifeguards helped more than 16,000 people.
Meanwhile, the RNLI Flood Rescue Team had their...
Category: Articles
Contents
Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 531 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager:...
Category: Contents
The Late Fatal Accident to the Calais Life-Boat
THE unfortunate accident which occurred to the Calais mail-packet Prince Frederick William, in February last, will be fresh in the memory of many of our readers, when the upsetting of one of the Calais life-boats, which had proceeded to the...
Category: Articles
A Yacht and a Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 8.45 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1957, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing boat had capsized off the mouth of the river Axe and was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Fiji and Charles was...