LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dear Reader Welcome to the summer 2006 issue of the Lifeboat. Do let us know what you think of it.

Have a look at the 'News' and 'Dispatches' sections to get up to date with the RNLI family then linger...

BEDFORDSHIRE.

Hitchin held a Centenary Meeting, which was addressed by Major Sir | Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of Management.

Bedford held a successful Century Life-boat Day in...

FlSHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. On the 22nd March, at about 7.30 A.M., a signal of distress was shown from a vessel at anchor in the bay, where she had been riding with others during the night. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., at...

ATTEMPTING TO SALVE A DUTCH STEAMER The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.

—At about 10.30 in the morning of February 21st, 1947, the master of the motor vessel Vrede, of Rotterdam, which had gone ashore four miles...

Vital illumination JUST AFTER 1900 on the evening of Wednesday February 12, 1986, Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat station's deputy launching authority was telephoned by Ramsey coastguard. An accident had happened close to Douglas...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.

The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...

IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) The Institution granted rewards for the saving of 428 lives by the Life- Boats in 1893, and of 170 lives by fishing and other boats during the same period, the total number of lives, for the saving of which...