LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A new life with the RNLI
Whether they’re facing the toughest conditions at sea or giving tireless hours to fundraise, RNLI volunteers show enormous dedication to saving lives at sea. We meet five people who left home in search of a new life – and found the...
Category: Articles
Boat Sailing and Sails
IT might be objected that remarks in the nature of hints or suggestions on boat sailing are " coals to Newcastle" to those who manage the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to a considerable extent such...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Rochdale
ROCHDALE is built on both banks of the River Roach, whence it derives its name; but the Rochdale of the present day differs widely from that of barely one hundred years ago. Then this quaint old town of industry and traffic occupied a...
Category: Articles
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (3)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Tbtf-gura refer to the numbtn of the Hfc-boatl detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 131. ., 195, 241, 267. oman. E. Esq., 118. ooley, G. Esq., the late, 266, A Lady, 16. )almer, Mrs. the late, 11. onourable Artillery...
Category: Donations
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
1st January to 31st March.
Greater London.
BATTERSEA.—Concert by the Junior Imperial League, with address by Mr. Rham, Honorary Secretary of the Branch. Address to the Rotary Club by the District...
Category: Branches
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums Signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN Centenary Vellums were pre- sented to Stations during the year 1931, and two more presentations were made in 1930 in addition to the ten previously reported in...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
DORNOCH FIRTH, SUTHERLANDSHIRE.— In January, 1886, the Local Residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat establishment on the shores of Dornoch Firth, a shipwreck having oc- curred there in the previous month, and...
Category: Articles
Margaret Davis, of Girvan
On the 26th October, the smack Margaret Davis, of Girvan, was totally wrecked on a reef of boulder-stones, a short distance south of the harbour of that place, during a gale of wind. The crew expected to get her off, but the gale increas-...
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On the South Wales coast, Porthcawl was isolated by an extremely heavy snow fall on Friday January 8 and the roads in the surrounding area were blocked by deep drifts for six days. By Tuesday January 12 the local chemist was out of a number...