LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck of the 'Pomona'
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...
Category: Services
A Powerboat Rescue By Ray Bulman
WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...
Category: Articles
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1961
1960 £ 197,541 334 42,558 17,618 65 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Aith, Appledore, Boulmer, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Howth, Lizard-Cadgwith, Longhope, Penlee, ...
Category: Accounts
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1963
1962 £ 240,845 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS.— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Boulmer, Caister, Cullercoats, Hastings, Howth, Kirk- cudbright, Llandudno, Longhope, Lowestoft, Sal- combe, Seaham...
Category: Accounts
The Late Thomas Wilson, Esq.
IT is with extreme regret that we have to announce the decease of this much-lamented and valued gentleman, by which event the Shipwreck Institution has been deprived of one of its founders, and of its first Chairman of Committee. For a...
Category: Obituaries
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Antaeus
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Antwerp Maritime Exhibition and Life-Saving Congress
AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...
Category: Articles
A Book for Review
THE first in a series of books which will undoubtedly become standard works on the history of the Cornish fife-boats. Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton, 2is.), is both an admirable...
Category: Articles