LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (1)
JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...
Across a Crowded Room: Thoughts on the Annual Presentation of Awards for Gallantry By Alan Neal
THOUGHTS ON THE ANNUAL PRESENTATION OF AWARDS FOR GALLANTRY by Alan Neal Deputy Secretary (Operations Division) 'AH! THERE'S THE RNLI,' exclaimed the coxswain of an East Anglian lifeboat who had travelled to London to receive a...
Category: Awards
Taken for a Ride!
Michael Gray, pictured meeting crew and station personnel at Cullercoats lifeboat station shortly before completing his sponsored cycle ride, cycled from Surbiton, Surrey, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne last September, raising £189 on behalf of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
December
Launches 54 Lives rescued 76
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened...
Category: Services
The S.S. Peterjon and the S.S. Tungenes
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — About 8.30 in the evening of the 1st of De- cember, 1948, The Mumbles coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Tungenes, of Stavanger, had reported that she was aground off Llanelly, with her rudder broken, and the...
Centenary of the Dutch Life-Boat Service
As was indicated in the important article contributed by my friend, Mr. de Booy, in the February, 1921, issue of this journal, the beneficent influence of Sir William Hillary's noble initiative in the foundation of the ROYAL NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Fishing Boat Mary
DEC. 1ST. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
At 11.10 A.M. a fishing boat was seen drifting about three miles E.S.E. of Sunderland. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton - on...
Annual Report. 1911
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Thursday, the 16th day of March, 1911, The Eight Honourable the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., G.B., in the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Propulsion of Life-Boats
IT will doubtless be in the memory of some of our readers that in April, 1886, the General Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION ap- pointed a sub-committee to inquire into the practicability of applying steam to Life-boats....
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853
IN the Life-boat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one reason for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks, on the coasts of the United Kingdom, which we had previously inserted, that a Wreck Register was being compiled at the Admiralty...
Category: Articles