LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Former Ship's Boat Tangle
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 1.55 early on the morning of the 12th of June, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a woman living at Elie that an outboard motor boat on passage from St. Andrews to...
The Earl Beaconsfield, of Glasgow
WEXFORD.—At about 8th Feb. 1884, telegrams were received stating that a large fourmast ship was ashore on the Pollock Rocks n Fethard Bay. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the south and the sea was very heavy. Horses were procured as...
The Prime Minister on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to September 30th, 1949 - 76,606 The Prime Minister on the Life-Boat Service4 I HAVE the...
Category: Meetings
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat The Ivy Dale
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Spurn . Point coastguard telephoned that an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, the Ivy Dale, of London, had run ashore off Withernsea and had damaged her rudder. She asked for the...
The French Lugger, Louise Amelie
On the 12th December, 1858, the French lugger Louise Amelie got embayed and was driven on shore near Newcastle in a heavy gale from S.S.E.- The life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, sta- tioned at Newcastle, was...
Right: Gary Reveals the Plans
Right: Gary reveals the plans about his programme to members ofAIOemey's lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
V.—MARGATE.
The Quiver, No. I.
This Life-boat is 34 feet long with 8 feet 3 inches beam, and pulls 10 oars.
A LIFE-BOAT Station was first formed at the town of Margate, under the...
Category: Articles
A Watson Cabin Life-Boat for the U.S.A. American Tribute to the Boats of the Institution
WHEN Rear-Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and the other American delegates attended the second International Life-boat Conference, which was held in Paris last June, they visited Life-boat Stations in...
Category: Articles
The Royal Commission on the Loss of Life at Sea
THE " First Report" of this Royal Commission shows clearly the necessity for its appointment, for it contains authoritative evidence of an alarming waste of both life and property in the greatest source of the country's wealth...
Category: Articles
Painting the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN order to insure regularity in painting the life-boats of the Institution, and the use of the best description of paint, its Committee have decided on forwarding the requisite supply of paint, each year, direct from the...
Category: Articles