LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House on Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 1882, The Eight Hon. The LORD MAYOR of LONDON in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
Enfant de Bretagne
Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near Bishop Rock Lighthouse...
Books
• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: November 29 and December 23 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 2 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft Sin Rather ON 1068: November 23, December 18 and January 12 Alderney, Channel Islands Relief 44ft Waveney ON...
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High Stakes
For generations, people have been tombstoning off cliffs. On 22 July last year, five boys ignored warnings and jumped into treacherous waters
Towards the end of a long day’s work on Portreath Beach, Cornwall, Senior...
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A Cabin Cruiser
Cabin cruiser swamped ONE OF APPLEDORE lifeboat station's shore helpers, Mr P. Ford, was out fishing in his own boat on the afternoon of Saturday September 29, 1984, when he saw an 18ft cabin cruiser trying to negotiate the harbour bar,...
Offshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1978
Amble, Northumberland October 7 Angle, Dyfed October 1, 7 and November 4 Anstruther, Fife September 28 Arklow, Co. Wicklow October 2 Arranmore, Co. Donegal September 18, 20, October 4 and November 5 Ballycotton, Co. Cork November 8 Baltimore...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XII.—GROOMSPORT.
The Florence, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, ! 10 oars. j A LIFE-BOAT was first stationed at this small i fishing port by the Institution in 1858; in 1867 it ! was replaced by the present boat, the...
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The Life-Boat
STORM on the waters; and the cruel wind Howls like a savage beast whose riven chain Hath loosed to slaughter; on the shore the grind, The rush, the hiss of the vexed waves complain, Sounding like solemn dirge, 'mid plash of driving...
Category: Poetry