LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
Category: Services
Right) the final Hampshire Rose Appeal cheque, for £3,300 bringing the grand total to £71,400, was presented by Sir Alec Rose,
(Right) The final Hampshire Rose Appeal cheque, for £3,300 bringing the grand total to £71,400, was presented by Sir Alec Rose, chairman of the Appeal Committee, to Anthony Oliver, district organising secretary (South), on October... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Service to a Greek Steamer at Cromer
AT 6.25 in the morning of the 9th October, 1939, the Cronier coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles to the east. A breeze was blowing with increasing...
Category: Services
Donaghadee: One of the Guardians of the Northern Approaches By Joan Davies
AUGUST 1910: DONAGHADEE station was established, its first boat being one of the earliest motor lifeboats in the Institution's fleet, a 43' Watson with a 40 hp engine capable of nearly 7 knots.
August 1975: it was...
Category: Articles
Cdr Ralph Swann CBE
It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.
Cdr Swann first joined the Institution's...
Category: Obituaries
A Shore Thing
Howard Richings continues his tour of the RNLI's lifeboat stations It's an ill wind that blows no good. 1998 certainly began in fine style if one was into windsurfing, whereas in January 1997 it would have required an icebreaker to...
Category: Articles
More Than 20 Chartered Surveyors and Their Office Colleagues from Blackpool
More than 20 chartered surveyors and their office colleagues from Blackpool chose to raise money for the RNLI and their own benevolent fund by raising themselves a foot above the ground on stilts and completing a half-mile course down the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Tuesday, 31st December, 1929.
PAID £17,250 15s. 3d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat estab- lishments....
Category: Committee
Eight Men and a Dog Rescued from the Rocks
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 16th January, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station, Father Joseph McNamara, was told by the Galway harbour master that the coaster June of Rotterdam was aground on the reefs off...
Category: Services
A Pilot Launch, a Port Control Launch and Dereske
DECEMBER 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. During the evening a strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a pilot launch and a port control launch, both of Cork, were swamped and sunk in Cork Harbour when on their way to put...