LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Young Mun
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — The motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan was launched at 8.20 A.M. on the llth August, 1938, to go to the help of a vessel reported by the coastguard to be ashore at Souter Point. There was a dense fog. A...
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander E.N.R.
Reprinted from the " Journal of tJie Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
There is little...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st April to the 30th Sept. 1878
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
Category: Services
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
NO PEACE FOR NEWLY WEDS
‘Just another day being married to an RNLI coxswain,’ says newly-wed Trina Sawyer, whose big day with Eastbourne lifeboat Coxswain...
Category: Articles
HEALTH 4 U
VITAMINS AT TAX FREE PRICES HI-STRENGTH 750mg LOW COST GUJCOSAM1NE Our High Strength Glucosamine represents one of the best quality, lowest priced products available - helping you maintain flexibility and smooth working of" your joints....
Category: Advertisement
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1895
THE RIGHT HON. LORD TWEEDMOUTH, LORD PRIVY SEAL AND CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. Lord TWEEDMOUTH.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BBCK, Bart., V.P., Chairman...
Category: Meetings
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
Category: Medals
Atmospheric Phenomena In 1880
THE Astronomer Royal (Sir George B. Airy) in liis recent report states—amongst other in- teresting subjects—that the mean temperature of 1880 was 49-4 deg., being O'l deg. above the average of the preceding 39 years. The highest...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in March were Carried out by the Following Stations
NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Filey, Yorkshire - At 3.5 p.m. on 28th March, 1967, news was received that a small boat had capsized in the bay and had fired a flare. The IRB was launched at 3.10 in a strong north westerly wind and a smooth sea. It...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 10th October, 1889.
Colonel FitzRov CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee