LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mastering The Technique
Feature Mastering the technique Although it’s not the urgent call of pagers that wake the crew members from their slumbers but the unwelcome shrill of alarm clocks, it’s no ordinary morning for Kieran and Paul. They are staying for a week at...
Category: Articles
The Last Arun Class Lifeboat to Be Built - 52-46 Duke of Atholl
The last Arun class lifeboat to be built - 52-46 Duke of Atholl - was alongside Festival Pier during the meetings and those attending were able to view her before she departed to escort the Little Ships.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Collecting Box Rescued from the Wreck of the S.S. "Amble."
(On the left is the Rev. T. N. Dunscombe, Hon. Secretary of the Hauxley Branch, and on the right Captain Young, the Amble Pilot.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crown of Germany
A large four- masted barque, named the Crown of Germany, whilst bound from Portland to Limerick with a cargo of wheat, came into Ballyheigue Bay, in mistake for the mouth of the Shannon, on the morning of the 10th July, during a S.W. gale...
Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, J.P., Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Blakeney Branch
BY the death last November, at the age of 83, of Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Life-boat Station which the Institu- tion has maintained at Blakeney, Norfolk, since 1862, the Institution has lost a valued...
Category: Obituaries
Generous Railwaymen. Nearly £1000 Contributed By the Staffs of the L.M.S.
The staffs of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway have collected among themselves £938 15*. for the Life-boat Service. This has been done in response to a special appeal made to them by Sir Edwin Stockton, M.P., a director of the...
Category: Donations
Little Aggie, of Berwick
On the 21st December, during a heavy gale from N.N.E., the schooner Little Aggie, of Ber- wick, with a cargo of slates, got on shore at Hauxley. The life-boat stationed there was immediately transported to the scene of the wreck, and with...
Mischief, of Carnarvon
On 24th January following the life-boat again went out, during a hurricane from the S., to the assistance of the schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, which had gone ashore on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of the...
Maria Somes, of London
Soon after midnight on the 9th May, the Lucy life-boat again went out, in reply to signals of distress from a large vessel which had struck on Whitby rocks. Several cobles had previously attempted to get the vessel off the rocks, but the sea...
Presentation of a Gold Medal
THE Gold Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is a much- coveted distinction, only bestowed for deeds of exceptional valour, was awarded in April to the REVEREND JOHN M. O'SHEA, parish priest of Ardmore, Co. Waterford...
Category: Medals