LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa/Kirkwall was told at 12.19 p.m. on l l t h July that a flat bottomed dinghy was missing from Weyland bay. It was thought that a Norwegian seaman was on board.
The IRB carried aboard the life-boat...
Threepenny Bits for Fifty Years
THE Institution has received a gift of 60 threepenny bits from a lady in Jarrow. She writes that she has been collecting threepenny-bits for 50 years, all of which she has sent to the Institution or put in life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
National Service for Seafarers St.Paul's Cathedral
EACH YEAR since 1905, except in wartime, the annual National Service for Seafarers has been held in St Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London, to celebrate the unity of calling of all those who use the sea. At the 1981 service, held on...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1907
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Saturday, the 16th day of March, The Most Honourable the Marquis of Londonderry, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Dear Reader
Each quarter we aim to bring you something that will stir and inform and, if I say so myself, this Autumn issue is something rather special.
We are reminded of the best and the worst of the RNLI’s 185-year history by the...
Category: Articles
Sirocco, of Port Wrinkle
Fowey, Cornwall - At 9.10 a.m. on 2nd September, 1966, a yacht was thought to have capsized between Looe and Polperro.
The life-boat Deneys Reitz proceeded at 9.20 in a strong westerly wind with a moderate sea. It was one...
Victoire
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The brigantine Victoire, of Irvine, bound thence to Dublin with a cargo of coal, showed signals of distress when about two miles east of Eamsey Harbour on the 26th October.
The wind was blowing from the...
A Steam Trawler (1)
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—19th January. A steam trawler had run aground, but refloated before the life-boat reached her.—Rewards, £15 6s..
Lynburn
Aberdeen.—The local steam trawler Lynburn, which had previously broken adrift, had gone ashore in the Naviga- tion Channel at Aberdeen. In the early hours of the morning of the 26th of September, 1950, tugs were trying to refloat her; and at...
Fishing Boats (1)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 7th of February, 1955, the weather worsened while fourteen local fishing boats were at sea, and at ten o'clock the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with an ex- coxswain...