LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Below: All That Remains of the Dragonfly
Below: All that remains of the Dragonfly, pulled up onto the beach the next day. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helene, of Rye
DONNA NOOK.—On the 20th February, at 9 A.M., the schooner Helene, of Rye, bound from that port to Hull, was wrecked during a gale at N.E. off Grainthorpe Haven. On the boatmen perceiving the Helene was aground and flying a signal of distress...
The Crew of the S.S. "Georgia"
Being fitted with new clothes at the Sailors' Home, Great Yarmouth.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bark Guyana. of Glasgow
On the night of the 10th February, the bark Guy- ana, of Glasgow, bound to the West Indies, was driven ashore on the Carrig Rocks, off Greenore Point, County Wexford, in a N.E.
gale. Intelligence having been conveyed to the...
The Kismet, of Preston
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat coxswain, while on the pier at Lytham, saw a sailing yacht coming up the river with her mast and sail overboard. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a...
From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853
IN the Life-boat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one reason for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks, on the coasts of the United Kingdom, which we had previously inserted, that a Wreck Register was being compiled at the Admiralty...
Category: Articles
Margaret Ann
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Appeal
Lambeth Palace. S.E.
I have been asked, and willingly consent, to write a word commending to the generosity of people of this country the great work which, year by year is carried on by the Life-Boat service under the Royal...
Category: Correspondence
The Full-Rigged ShipForrest Hall
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—Telegrams were received at about 7 P.M. on the 12th January asking for assistance to a vessel showing signals of distress off Grore Point.
Almost immediately after the messages had been received the...