LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kate, of Lyne
On the 26th March the schooner Kate, of Lynn, was observed about 2 miles off this place drifting towards the land during a strong easterly gale. The Filey life-boat was at once launched, and took off the crew of 4 men, landing them in safety...
A Sea Balliol Aircraft
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Royal Naval Air Station at Brawdy had reported that a Sea Balliol aircraft had crashed into the sea two...
Surviving at Sea
As an organisation that aims to improve safety at sea – and one that is rooted in the UK’s maritime heritage – the Lloyd’s Register Group (LRG) shares plenty of ground with the RNLI. In 2004 it set up a separate registered charity dedicated...
Category: Articles
The Motor Cruisers Kon Tiki and Thyl and Fraeya
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out....
The R.N.L.I Looks Ahead
For the first time in its history the annual meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., referred to the decisions...
Category: Meetings
De Guilala
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 8.30 p.m.
on 8th June, 1967, it was seen that peopleon board a cabin cruiser drifting off Capstone Hill were signalling for assistance.
The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 9...
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1888
1 ,ives saved.
Akaba, s.s,, of Liverpool 3o Alabama, Vvarqae, ot Tonsberg ... 8 Albatross, barque, of Hernosan 1 —landed crew from the Tongue light venae!.
Albert H. Locke, brig, of Sund rlaiu 10 Albert...
Category: Services
Shoreline
THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.
While we are, of course, making every...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ABERYSTWITH.—A new 34-feet, 10- oared Life-boat has been forwarded to this well-known Welsh watering-place, its cost having been defrayed from a hand- some legacy bequeathed to the Institution, through its Manchester Branch, by the late Mr....
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(Below) for the Duke There Is Always Time to Talk With the Children
. . And (below) for the Duke there is always time to talk with the children. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Spectrum Photographic Studio. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs