LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Wrecks In the Shetlands. Stromness Motor Life-Boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...
Category: Articles
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia (1)
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—A yawl belonging to Wexford broke adrift on the night of the 27th May, 1902. A strong gale from W.S.W. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy sea. Owing to the stress of weather the crew were unable to make the...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 22 AN OUTSTANDING DAY: THE CROWN OF A MEMORABLE YEAR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE from all parts of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and, indeed, from many other parts of the world, came to the Royal Festival...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1887
Jan. 4.—The crew of a Coastguard boat put oft' from Bognor, Sussex, and saved the crew of four men, and a female passenger from the schooner Elizabeth Curry, of London, which stranded at Middleton Point, during a strong S.E. wind, a...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
Category: Branches
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 19th January, 1928.
SIR GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.
Passed a Vote of Thanks to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., for attending a Gala Performance of the Film " The Black...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1955. 63 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURIXG January life-boats were launched 41 times and rescued 37 lives.
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING FLEET Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from...
Category: Services