LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1898
WE have much pleasure in drawing the special attention of our readers to the valuable statistics recently issued by the Board of Trade in their Annual Blue Book, which furnishes abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping...
Category: Articles
A Ship’s Boat and an Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A ship’s boat was reported adrift and an aeroplane down in the sea, but the boat was found empty and of the aeroplane only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £7 2s..
Rnlb Arthur and Blanche Harris
Rnlb Arthur and Blanche Harris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnlb George and Olive Turner
Rnlb George and Olive Turner. - View image in PDF
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Nowa Huta and the German Vessel Ingrid Leonhardt
Dover, Kent. At 12.32 early on the morning of the 9th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Polish motor vessel Nowa Huta and the German vessel Ingrid Leonhardt had been in collision ten miles east-by-south of...
French Medals for Three Life-Boat Crews. Barry Dock, Torbay and Longhope
Barry Dock, Torbay and Longhope.
THE French Government has awarded medals to English, Scottish and Welsh life-boat crews for gallantry last winter.
During the seven months, from the beginning of...
Category: Medals
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."...
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Feature Coming of Age
The RNLI has been saving lives at sea for 178 years. Beach Rescue has only been a part of this for two years, but it has come a long way since its formation as a trial project in early 2001 The RNLI became involved in Beach Rescue as a...
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Kon Tiki II
COMPLETE BREAKDOWN At 5 p.m. on 2ist July, 1965, the Deal coastguard reported that the yacht Kon Tiki II of Ostend had broken down two and a half miles east-north-east of the North Goodwin lightvessel and at 5.10 the life-boat Michael and...