LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Taking Shipwrecked Persons from a Wreck, and Their Stowage In a Life-Boat
As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £139 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.
This was the fourteenth annual col- lection and the total for the fourteen years is...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty L.C.T.711 and Her Consort, L.C.T.723
DECEMBER 22ND. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 4.55 in the afternoon the Portland Bill coastguard telephoned that a red distress signal had been seen a mile north of the Shambles Light-vessel. A strong southsouth- west wind was...
The Gales and the Variations of the Barometer In the Months of October, November, and December, 1867
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats Named In Norfolk and Devon
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, the President of the Institution, named the new Sheringham life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows at a ceremony at Shering- ham on the 15th June, 1962. The bulk of the money for the...
Category: Inaugurations
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1979
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 2 (twice), 15, July 12, 22 (twice), 26, 28, 29, August 15, 26 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 22, 27, July 21, 30, August 2 (twice), 7, 9, 16, 23 and 26 Aberystwyth, Dyfed July 6, 29, August 19 and 29 Aldeburgh, Suffolk...
Category: Services
Leslie French Seen Here (l) With Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson Chairman of Fulmer and Iver Branch Gave a Presentation of Excerpts from Shakespeare at Eton College O
Leslie French, seen here (/.) with Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson, chairman of Fulmer and Iver branch, gave a presentation of excerpts from Shakespeare at Eton College on Sunday, January 18. £.400 was raised for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis
On the 14th No-vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm laden, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night being very dark. The Lyme...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney Lifeboat 44-001 on Temporary Duty at Gorleston Returning from Service to the Danish Vessel Baltic Which Had Devel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney lifeboat 44-001 on temporary duty at Gorleston returning from service to the Danish vessel Baltic, which had developed a heavy list, on April 8. Seven seamen, picked up by the tug Vanguard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
To All Lifeboat Supporters: Messages from His Grace the Duke of Atholl Chairman of the Committee of Management and Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham Cb Mni Direc
IT GAVE ME great pleasure to be elected Chairman of the Institution at the meeting of the Committee of Management on June 28 in succession to Major- General Ralph Farrant. As I am sure you are all aware, he has left the Institution in...
Category: Committee