LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Category: Services
The King's Courtesy to a Brave Life-Boat Man
WHILE the King was afloat in April last j off the Scilly Islands with Mr. Dorrien- ! Smith, the President of the Scilly Isles Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in the latter's steam- launch, Mr. Dorrien-Smith was...
Category: Articles
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?
12 MONTHS
to produce a new...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
Important Notice.
Owing to the continued extraordinarily high cost of all printing, and the need for economy in view of the large capital expenditure with which the Institution is at present faced, THE LIFE-BOAT will not...
Category: Meetings
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th October, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Douglas
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Sunday January 26, 1986: a woman had suffered a suspected heart attack aboard the Belfast to Liverpool ferry, St Colum I. At 0313 Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson class, R. A. Colby Cubbin No 1, launched with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Leetnan Was One of Many Helpers Who Between Them Collected £3500 During Belfast Lifeboat Day on April 25 a Remarkable Increase of £1000 on Last Year It Was Mrs
Mrs Leetnan was one of many helpers who between them collected £3,500 during Belfast lifeboat day on April 25, a remarkable increase of £1,000 on last year. It was Mrs Leematfs 85th birthday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
Category: Services
Wreck of the S.S. "Stanley," Off Tynemouth, and Services of the "Constance" Life-Boat
On Thursday night, the 24th Nov. last, the coast of Northumberland was visited by one of the most fearful storms that have been felt there for many years past, accompanied by one of the heaviest seas remembered —indeed, the heaviest sea that...
Category: Services
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs