LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Herring Boat Fisher Lads
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.10 a.m. on 3rd November, 1965, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, half a mile south of Dungeness, was flying a distress signal. The lifeboat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 8.28 a.m. in...
The Full-Rigged ShipForrest Hall
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—Telegrams were received at about 7 P.M. on the 12th January asking for assistance to a vessel showing signals of distress off Grore Point.
Almost immediately after the messages had been received the...
The Lizard Life-Boat Station
WE feel sure that the accompanying illustration will prove of interest to our readers. It is a photograph taken on the occasion of the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York to the Lizard Life-boat, which was...
Category: Articles
Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa
BY the death on 20th November, at the of seventy-seven, of Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Jellicoe of Scapa, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished vice-presidents. Lord Jellicoe became a member of the...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
ISLE OF MAN.
XX. and XXI.—DOUGLAS.
No. 1. The Manchester and Salford Sunday Schools, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
No. 2. The John Turner- Turner, 35 feet long, 9 feet...
Category: Articles
Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
Category: Articles
The P&O Steamer Palma
At 6 P.M.
on the 10th June the Coastguard re- ported that a ship lying off Southend was flying a signal for assistance to be sent, and had semaphored that a boat was adrift and wanted help. The crew of the Life-boat James...
Mastercard Team Brave the Rapids
Mastercard team brave the rapids The team from The Royal Bank of Scotland, who manage the lifeboat MasterCard, have raised £1,450 in sponsorship for the RNLI - their team entered the RNLI's Whitewater rafting event held earlier this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barges Esterel and Yampa
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WALTON AND FRINTON OCT. 14TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The barges Esterel and Yampa, of London, were on their map from London to Norwich with cargoes of maize, When nearly opposite Orfordness they were caught by...
Naming of the Rnlb Newsbuoy
Saturday September 29, 1984 ON A BRIGHT, early autumn day, one of the RNLI's newest lifeboats lay afloat, bedecked and sparkling, awaiting her naming ceremony. An ordinary enough scene for those familiar with such occasions but this...
Category: Inaugurations