LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (9)
1st March.
A steamer ran on the rocks, but when the life-boat reached her she found that the master did not wish to leave.
Heavy seas struck the life-boat, flinging her against the steamer, and one of her...
A Convoy of Ships
AUGUST 8TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A convoy of ships had been attacked from the air and some of them had been sunk. The life-boat. put out with the honorary secretary of the station, a naval surgeon and a policeman on board, but a...
New director
James Vaughan is the RNLI’s new Corporate Services Director, taking over from Ian Ventham who retired in August after 18 years with the charity. Promoted internally from Head of Fundraising and Communications Services, James is now...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Exhibition
THROUGH the kindness of the organ- izers of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition (formerly the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition), held at Olympia, from 16th Septem- ber to 2nd October of this year, the Institution was given...
Category: Articles
A Steam Drifter
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—15th October. A steam drifter had grounded, but got off without help, and another drifter reported aground could not be found.—Rewards, £15 7s. 6d..
A Fishing Boat (1)
FEBRUARY 8TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
A fishing boat with two men aboard left Rye for Camber but did not arrive. In bitter weather the life-boat searched without success for several hours. - Rewards, £32 0S. 6d..
Plymouth's Round House Before-
Plymouth's Round House presented unique problems when it was convened into the RNLI's base in Plymouth in 1993. The listed building dates from the early 19th century and the before-and-after photographs show how the building has been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Overland 1983: the 1st Lyn (Exmoor) Scouts
Overland 1983: The 1st Lyn (Exmoor) Scouts, with a third size replica of the pulling lifeboat, Louisa, built by themselves, re-enact the epic journey of the Lynmouth lifeboatmen in January 1899 when they took Louisa up Countisbury Hill,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
Peel, Isle of Man.—13th July. An upturned boat was reported drifting off Niarbyl Point, but nothing was found.
—Rewards, £25 7s..
A Vessel (11)
JUNE 12TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An unknown vessel, eleven miles away, had been reported in need of help, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £12 3s..