LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Invermore, of Dublin (1)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
The Centenary: In Ireland
Dublin.
Centenary Meeting.
THE Centenary Meeting was held on 24th March. The Right Hon. Andrew Jameson, P.C., D.L., the Chairman of the Branch, presided, and, in the course of his speech moving the...
Category: Articles
Members of the Midlands Area Branch of the British Caravanners Club
Members of the Midlands area branch of the British Caravanners Club elect a different charity each year to benefit from its bottle fund. In 1985 the RNLI was chosen and members donated £173; included in this amount was £73.80... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Families. The Aindows of Formby, Lancashire
ONE of the most remarkable family records in the history of the Life-boat Service is that of the Aindows of Formby, in Lancashire, who for nearly 60 years provided the greater part of the Crew of the Life-boat at Formby, a very isolated...
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Germ, of Goole
HORNSEA.—On the 13th November the ketch Germ, of Goole, riding at anchor 1 mile south of Hornsea, was seen to hoist signals of distress. The Life-boat Ellen and Margaret of Settle was thereon sent off to her aid; but the master declined her...
The S.S. Dunkery Beacon, of London
DECEMBER 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
Information was received from the coastguard at 12.10 in the morning that a ship in the harbour was showing signals of distress and at 12.25 the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance...
Message from the Director
By the time this letter is published I will have succeeded Rear Admiral Graham as director and secretary of the RNLI.
It is a tremendous honour and a considerable challenge to have been appointed by the committee of...
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Epimachus, of Amsterdam
On the 18th De- cember, the Dutch galliot EpimacTws, of Amsterdam, was seen to be running for the shore, with a flag of distress up, 4 miles north of Berwick-on-Tweed. The life-boat at that place was at once launched, and pro- ceeding to her...
The Prince of Wales's Centenary Appeal to the Empire
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, S.W.
May 10th, 1924.
" THERE is not a country with a sea- board whose vessels have not, at some time during the past century, been rescued from shipwreck by the British...
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War on the water
On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world
The passenger...
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