LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March
MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Category: Services
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Last issue’s Father of Forecast piece charting the life of Robert FitzRoy certainly caught the imagination – here are just some of the many letters and emails we received …
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Category: Articles
OUT OF REACH
A father swam out to stop his daughter drifting away in an inflatable dinghy, but couldn’t reach her. Thankfully, there were willing RNLI volunteers who could
On Saturday 30 June 2018, Blackpool Crew Members Iain...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Jan. 1, 1857. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
A PADDLE TOO FAR
How many people does it take to save a life? As a mother and son found out last summer, it can take a village
It was almost 5am on Tuesday 14 August when the crew at Skerries Lifeboat Station were woken by their pagers. A...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
KILMORE, co. WEXFORD. — The schooner Antelope of Wexford stranded, during thick but moderate weather on the 6th May, about half a mile east of Bastardstown. Information of the casualty was received from the Coastguard at 3 A.M., and the crew...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the National Life-Boat Institution In 1882
Jan. 3.—Fire men put off in a boat at great risk arid rescued eight men whose boa|, had been driven away from Island Crone, Co. Don- egal, by a sudden gale of wind from the S.W., on the 2nd January, leaving them on the island —which is...
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RNLI News
HM The Queen visits Fraserburgh station Monday 22 June was a proud day for Fraserburgh as HM The Queen toured the town's lifeboat station.
In her capacity as Patron of the RNLI, she received a cheque for £305,613,...
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Letters
Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.
It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...
Category: Correspondence