LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane and an R.A.F. Rescue Launch
NOVEMBER 27TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 11.45 P.M. a message came from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea three miles N.W. from Wells look-out, and at 12.19 the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Pearl and H.M.S. Viva II
MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
Category: Articles
Notes and News. By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution
THE severe storms which visited the British Isles during December last were marked by a number of splendid services, and in the case of the Fish- guard Life-boat by one of the finest anywhere on the coast in recent...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1862
1.—Moved by The Right Hon. the LOED MAYOR, and carried unanimously,— 1.—That the following noblemen and gentlemen be the officers of the Institution for the current year:—(tscfe last page for this list) 2.—Moved by Vice-Admiral the Right Hon...
Category: Meetings
The New Headquarters Building Designed By Leslie Jones and Partners and Built By Brazier and Son of Southampton
The new headquarters building, designed by Leslie Jones and Partners and built by Brazier and Son of Southampton.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Exeter
Before you buy or renew your Private Medical Insurance...read this With Exeter Friendly Society, your premiums do not increase simply because you get older. The age you join is the age you stay*.
This alone could save you...
Category: Advertisement
Poole - New Lifeboat House
A new era in the history of Poole's lifeboats began on 27 July 1990 when the Mayor of Poole, Councillor Mrs Anne Stribley, unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the new lifeboat house in a very visible position next to the lifting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Providentia, of Svelig
On the 24th March, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the brig Providentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen, while running for the South Harbour, struck on the rocks near the entrance. As soon as the vessel was seen making for the land, the...