LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
WHEN, ON MARCH 27, HRH The Duke of Kent attended the first meeting of the Committee of Management to be held in the RNLI's new London premises, it was the first time that a President of the Institution had addressed such a...
Category: Articles
The Eighty-Ton Three-Masted Schooner Happy Harry, of Dublin
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK, AND HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At four in the afternoon the Ardmore civic guards reported that a schooner, travelling west under sail, seemed to be on fire aft. A strong south-east wind was blowing,...
An 850Cc Mini Was the Prize In a Lottery Run By Filey Lions Club Throughout the Summer on the Coble Landing Filey a Cheque for £5350 Being 50 Per Cent of the Total Raised Was Handed Over To
An 850cc Mini was the prize in a lottery run by Filey Lions Club throughout the summer on the Coble Landing, Filey. A cheque for £5,350, being 50 per cent of the total raised, was handed over to Commander P. E.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Morecambe Bay Lightvessel
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.17 on the morning of the 14th of May, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that the Morecambe Bay light- vessel had asked for the life-boat as a member of her crew was seriously ill.
At...
The Westminster Collection
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-bouses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The H.M.T. Resmilo
JUNE 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2 in the morning information came from the senior naval officer that H.M.T. Resmilo had been bombed in Peterhead Bay, and with a doctor and the senior naval officer on board the...
The Past—On Call By Commander Paul C Chapman Obe Rn Dso Dsc
ONE OF THE PEOPLE upon whom honorary life governorship was bestowed at the 1973 annual meeting of the RNLI was Professor William W. Flexner, pho, in recognition of the very valuable help which he has given to the lifeboat service in the...
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The Rig Fortuna
ALNMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The rig Fortuna, of Eiga, stranded on Birling arr Bocks, on the morning of the 8th anuary. On the following morning three f her crew left in the ship's boat, andreached the shore, five others were rescued by...