LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank account* that&ave live* at tea For the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to be able to continue its valiant and valuable work saving lives at sea, it needs to be able to plan ahead when it comes to fundraising. This...
Category: Advertisement
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1950 - 77,074 The Danger of Rubber Dinghies EVERY year life-boats are called...
Category: Articles
The Lord Brownlow
The Institution has been so unfortunate as to lose two of its members by death within a few days of one another, Lord Brownlow and Mr. Henry Fargus.
Lord Brownlow, who became a member of the Committee in 1924, died on 19th...
Category: Obituaries
Feature Building Into the Millennium
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings reaches the final leg of his epic voyage - travelling from Aith, in the Shetland Islands, to Eyemouth on the Scottish mainland.It is appropriate that we commence the final leg...
Category: Articles
To the Rescue of a London Barge at Walton-on-Naze
THE barges Esterel and Yampa, of London, were on their way from London to Norwich with cargoes of maize on the 4th November, 1939.
When nearly opposite Orfordness they were caught by an easterly gale. Both barges turned...
Category: Services
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (,'fliejigurei refer to the numbers nf the Life~bo&tt detailed an the ten preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 134, Cyclist Life-boat Fund, 23. Homan, E. Esq., 118. Popham, Mrs., the laM, 224....
Category: Donations
The Shipwreck
THE crash of timbers and the rasp of rock, ; The mocking tongue of Death in frenzy wags The stricken ship—mere plaything of the Beneath its ghostly, ghastly, fleshless lip.
gale- Lies helpless, while the cruel...
Category: Poetry
The Three-Masted Motor Schooner Windermere, of Dublin
OCTOBER 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 11.20 in the morning the Carne coast life-saving service telephoned that a schooner was ashore at Churchtown, Carnsore Point. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog. The motor...