LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1868
THE RIGHT HON. H. T. L. CORRY, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the Chairman :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITOTION for the...
Category: Meetings
The Necessity of a Standard for Ships' Life-Boats
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" IN the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, which, conjointly with the Passengers' Act of 1852, now constitutes the whole law as re- gards all...
Category: Articles
Two Fishing Cobles
On the 6th February, two fishing-cobles, which had put to sea from this place to pursue their ordinary avocations, were overtaken by a heavy gale, and ran back to the Haven, but were unable to enter, on ac- count of the heavy seas which...
Fast Afloat Boat 3
ON TRIAL - FAST AFLOAT BOAT PROTOTYPE TAKES TO THE WATER The RNLI must always have an eye of sea rescue many years ahead. 0 latest design of Fast Afloat Boat (R is designed to achieve even highi retaining - and even imprc standards of I...
Category: Articles
St. Stephen (1)
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
Home on the Beach
RNLI lifeguards on Cornwall’s Fistral Beach finished the season with a brand new base.
Previously, the lifeguards on one of the UK’s busiest beaches were working from metal storage containers (above). Now, they have a...
Category: Articles
A Yacht and an Aeroplane
JULY 11TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 8.15 A.M. the life-boat station was informed that an air battle was imminent. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes later it was reported that an armed yacht...
John Pearson, Crew Member of Whitby's All Weather and Inshore Lifeboats Since 1987.
John Pearson, crew member of Whitby's all weather and inshore lifeboats since 1987.
John was awarded a Bronze medal in 1993 in recognition of his high standard of seam a n s h i p , boathandling skills and bravery when... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saving Life from Shipwreck
IN the Wreck Returns presented by the Board of Trade every year to Parliament, it is recorded that, from the very nature of the circumstances, the largest number of lives saved from founderings and collisions in the seas of the British Isles...
Category: Articles
Paris Universal Exhibition. Model Life-Boats, Etc
WE annex a list of the various models and other articles which have been transmitted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the Paris Universal Exhibition.
I. We are glad to understand that these articles form not...
Category: Articles