LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nature of the Services By Life-Boats and Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS 1962 No. %of total 1963 No. %of total % of total services 5 10 15 20 25 30 Fishing boats - all types 151 18-1 170 19-7 (1962) | 1963 Motor vessels,...
Category: Services
Annual Report
At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of March, 1861;, Vice-Admiral the Eight Honourable the Earl of HARDWICKE in the Chair, The following report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
A Summer Service. What It Feels Like to Be Rescued
ON the afternoon of 12th August a message was received at the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Station, that a sailingboat had capsized about a mile and a half from the shore, off Fort Victoria.
A moderate gale was blowing, and the...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 13th April, 1899.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., in the Chair.
V.P., Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
A Dramatic View of Three Sisters Seconds Before She Sank. Crew Member Frank Home's White Helmet Can Be See In the Centre of the Group In the Sea As the Navy Inflatable Closes I
A dramatic view of Three Sisters seconds before she sank. Crew member Frank Home's white helmet can be see in the centre of the group in the sea as the Navy inflatable closes in to pick them up. Photo RAF Valley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Besty Ann, of Port Gordon
On the 4th August a severe gale from N.N.W. burst over this coast, and the fishing fleet, which did not return the previous evening, when the weather became threatening, was caught in the gale. The lugger Betsey Ann, of Port Gordon, N.B.,...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Monday, the 8th clay of April, 1872, CAPTAIN His ROYAL HIGHNESS...
Category: Annual Reports
The Liberty Ship Fort St. Paul, and The Admiralty Vessel Ben My Chree
JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick fog, with a light westerly breeze and a...
An Inflatable and a Canoe
Sixteen minutes: five children rescued 1436: SUNDAY JUNE 15, 1986: honorary secretary of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, while working in the boathouse hears Camber Coastguard on radio to Dover Coastguard requesting immediate launch of Rye'...
An Aeroplane (34)
Nov. 20TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but when the life-boat reached her she found that the only man on board had swum ashore. The aeroplane was taken in tow by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards, £5 5s....