LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1867
TT appears from the Annual Wreck Register of the British Isles, just published under the auspices of the Board of Trade, that 2,513 shipwrecks, representing a registered tonnage of 464,000 tons, took place in the seas and on the coasts of...
Category: Annual Reports
Trinity House
FOR MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED YEARS the Corporation of Trinity House, with its headquarters on Tower Hill, London, has been concerned with the safety of shipping, the progress of navigation and the welfare of seamen. Despite its venerable age,...
Category: Articles
Roy and Barbara Harding at Her Naming Ceremony at Galway Bay (Photo Courtesy Lt Col Brian Clark)
Roy and Barbara Harding at Her Naming Ceremony At Galway Bay (Photo Courtesy Lt Col Brian Clark). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries
Loch Wasdale
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
First wave
It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …
The industrial...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th September, 1912.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building,...
Category: Committee
Charles
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II
At 7.30 A.M.
on the 5th November the local fishing cobles Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II put out to the fishing grounds During the morning the wind backed into the north-east and increased to a strong gale, with...