LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 19th day of March, 1857, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S., in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee...
Category: Annual Reports
Fig 2: After End Jacked Up So That Holes Can Be Drilled Through Deadwood for Keel Bolts the Longest Bolt Being 3Ft 6In
Fig. 2: After end jacked up so that holes can be drilled through deadwood for keel bolts, the longest bolt being 3ft 6in.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BALLYCOTTON,CO. COEK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Bally- cotton, making for Cork harbour, close- hauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Lincolnshire Shipwreck Society—the last remaining of the County Shipwreck Associations — having been brought into union with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the latter has completely renovated the four life-boat...
Category: Articles
Caught in a trap
An off-duty RNLI lifeguard was in the right place at the right time when two surfers were trapped in a perilous position on St Ouen’s Beach, Jersey
Ed Stevens was leaving the car park at St...
Category: Articles
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler, Braconmoor
Longhope (The Orkneys).
At one in the morning on 5th January, the Aberdeen steam trawler, Braconmoor, outward bound for the fishing grounds, went ashore on TornessPoint, in the Orkneys, three and a half miles from Longhope....
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 17th January, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to forward to the South Holland Life-boat Society a message expressing regret and sympathy in connexion with the loss of the...
Category: Committee
Old Life-Boats. Some Examples of Their Conversion Into Yachts
Some Examples of their Conversion into Yachtj.
eve ything is done to make the Life-boats of the Institution as perfect as possible in material and workman- ship, and since they are -withdrawn from their Stations as soon...
Category: Articles
Life Saving Equipment
In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...
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