LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th October, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—At 8.10 A.M. on the 16th June the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the south beach. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester were assembled and the boat launched. As quickly as possible she proceeded to...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
LI. HASTINGS.—The Charles Arkcoll, 34 feet by 8 feet 3 inches, 10 oars.
" Thou old sea town, crouching beneath the rocks, Like a strong lion waiting for his prey— Where are thy river, harbour, and the docks, In which...
Category: Articles
Dear Reader
Each quarter we aim to bring you something that will stir and inform and, if I say so myself, this Autumn issue is something rather special.
We are reminded of the best and the worst of the RNLI’s 185-year history by the...
Category: Articles
Self-Devotion of An English Seaman
ON the 3rd of November last, during the gale which produced such devastating effects on the coast of Suffolk, and on other parts of the east coast of England, a Swedish brig, the Vestor, was driven ashore near Orfordness, on the Suffolk...
Category: Articles
Spink
Read the heroic story behind every gallantry medal...
LIFEBOAT GALLANTRY There are stories of hours spent at sea to effect rescues in raging storms and tempestuous seas, incredible feats of endurance of men in rowing and...
Category: Advertisement
An American Jet Aircraft
Dover, Kent.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of November, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard tele- phoned that an American jet aircraft had crashed off Kingsdown, about one and a half miles east-north-east of Dover, and that the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE. — On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded...
Category: Services
Wreck of the 'Pomona'
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1927
Persons Time of rescued from 1927. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 5. 9.30 a.m. Motor yawl Provider, of Holy Island. Holy Island No. 1 Life-boat escorted boat into harbour.
„ 19. 8.10 a.m. Boat of S.S. Bilton,...
Category: Services