LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
The Deep Sea Tug Empire Harry, of Hull
JUNE 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At one in the morning a request came for the life-boat crew to stand by, as the deep sea tug Empire Harry, of Hull, with two laden lighters in tow, had gone ashore. A fresh south-west wind was blowing, with a...
Boy Billy, Our Boys and June Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 7.15 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats were at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
Spurn Life-Boat Crew (Bradford's Own) As Guard of Honour to the Prince of Wales
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Bradford on 30th May, the Spurn Lifeboat Crew whose new Motor Boat is being provided out of the special fund raised in Bradford, and is to be named after the city played a prominent part in the welcome given...
Category: Articles
Is your risk of drowning greater than you think?
Around 400 people drown in the UK every year; a further 140 in Ireland. So what is the RNLI doing about it?
Our courageous volunteer lifeboat crews, lifeguards and flood rescue teams...
Category: Articles
Generous Scottish Ladies. Gifts and Legacies of £92,392 In Eleven Years
A REMARKABLE feature of life-boat appeals during recent years has been the number of gifts for building motor life-boats for the Scottish coast received from ladies in Scotland. Since the beginning of 1928 nine such gifts have been received,...
Category: Donations
Duchess of York Visits Rnli Stand
While attending the South of England show at Ardingly in June, HRH The Duchess of York visited the RNLI stand, where she was introduced to Ken Everard, then coxswain of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat.
The Duchess also spoke to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
River Afton
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the night of the 4th March, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that a doctor was needed to attend an injured member of the crew of the motor vessel River A/ton of...
The Sailing Barge Lord Churchill, of Faversham
Margate, Kent.—At 12.30 P.M. on the 5th December, 1937, information was received that a barge flying a distress signal had been seen by the coastguard about three miles east of Reculvers.
The motor life-boat Lord...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1898
Lives 1898. saved.
Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...
Category: Services