LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853
IN the Life-boat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one reason for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks, on the coasts of the United Kingdom, which we had previously inserted, that a Wreck Register was being compiled at the Admiralty...
Category: Articles
Association of Inner Wheel Clubs In Great Britain and Ireland
An honorary Record of Thanks was presented to the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland. Collecting the award were Anne Fryer and Ann Koh. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
18 in 1 day
Tynemouth lifeboat crew rescued 18 people on one busy Saturday, 26 March. First, three trawlermen needed a tow home to Blyth after their vessel suffered an engine fire. Both Tynemouth lifeboats, along with RNLI colleagues from Cullercoats...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 8
THESE remains but one type of Life-boat to which reference is necessary to com- plete the description of those boats which are propelled either by sail or oars. The Cromer type bears so strong a resemblance to the Liverpool Life- boats that...
Category: Articles
Additional Life-Boat Stations
Fully impressed as we are with the conviction that more life-boat stations, and improved organization of the boats already established, are the two most pressing wants on our coasts, we are gratified to be able to announce that since the...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
THE Life-Saving Service of the United States comprised at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1904, 273 stations, no increase in the number having taken place during the year. Of those stations 196 were situated on the...
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Contents
In this issue News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Direct Talking The RNLI's Director, Brian Miles, with his views on 1997 and the future 9 Lifeboat Services 14 including Medal and Vellum services from around the...
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An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 31ST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. About 1.30 in the afternoon a message was received from the Hartland Point coastguard that an aeroplane had dived into the sea three miles north of Sharp Nose Point. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
An Aeroplane (120)
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE ISLE OF WIGHT. The life-boat, crew had assembled for an exercise, but this was cancelled when the air raid siren sounded. Before the men left the station they saw a British aeroplane come down in the sea two miles...