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A Trawler

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...

Obituaries

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Marjofie Berry Falmouth guild president Hugh Bryan Chew Valley branch former chairman Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) Andrew Forbes Former...

Category: Obituaries

Busiest year on record

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...

Category: Articles

Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 204

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.

The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...

Category: Advertisement

Critical choice

Date: Summer 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 604 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2013

With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?

Dive...

Category: Articles

Vermont, of Halifax

Date: July 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 41

on 20th Oct., saved 16 men from the barque Vermont, of Halifax..

Nimrod, of Castletown

Date: July 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 41

on 9th Feb., saved 3 men from the lugger Nimrod, of Castletown..

A Boat

Date: November 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 142

CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—The Ashtonian Life-boat put off at 2.30 P.M., on the 28th August, and brought safely back to land a boat containing two men, which was drifting out to sea during a strong S.W.

wind. Her occupants were...

Annie

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—A signal of distress was shown by the schooner Annie, of Lancaster, which was about three miles E.N.E. of the harbour and drifting ashore, in a moderate gale from S.S.E., thick weather and a rough sea, on the 17th April....

Notes on Building a Life-Boat

Date: February 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 231

IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.

For many years, indeed since 1899,...

Category: Articles