LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
Category: Articles
The silent epidemic
WORLDWIDE, AN ESTIMATED 372,000 PEOPLE DROWN EVERY YEAR
In too many countries, drowning is the leading killer of children. It affects the poorest in our world first and worst: people caught in the rhythms of everyday life...
Category: Articles
Scotland Community news
MAKING WAVES IN DUNBAR
In January, a group of young surfers from the Wave Project – an organisation that helps young people reduce anxiety and increase confidence through its award-winning surf courses – paid a visit to...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 9 A.M. on the 9th October the sea was making fast, and one...
Category: Services
October Gales. Two Gold Medals Awarded to Moelfre, Anglesey, and Two Silver Medals to St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4th June, 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.f., 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 Reward....
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
Impulsion (1)
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Letters
Augustine Courtauld Can we please hear a bit more about 'the well known explorer' Augustine Courtauld, after whom the new Poole lifeboat has been named?—N. L.
STEWART, LIEUT.-CDR., RN, at RAF Staff College,...
Category: Correspondence
Letters
One family's century Thank you for your very kind letter regarding my coming resignation from the Committee of Management. It is sad to think that, after more than 100 years, there will be no Cave on the C.
of M. I am...
Category: Correspondence