LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Picturing the Scene
Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...
Category: Articles
Books
• In the annals of the RNLI new deed of gallantry are recorded year by year. From comparatively recent times, the very names of such casualties as World Concord, Netta Croan, Lyrma and Orion conjure up the high courage and fine seamanship...
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Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During January and February 1879
NEWHAVEN.—On the 3rd January last, a dismasted vessel having been seen off the harbour, the Life-boat Michael Henry pro- ceeded out to her. The wind was blowing moderately from W.S.W. and a heavy sea was running. On arriving at the vessel it...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
THE sad story of the acting Selsey coxswain, Douglas Arnell, who was obliged to relinquish his post because of colour blindness, was widely reported in the press earlier this year. It may therefore be helpful to explain the RNLI's...
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Your Letters
Lifeboats at Dunkirk With reference to the letter in the Summer issue regarding the Poole lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright and her work during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940.
A total of 19 RNLI lifeboats took part in...
Category: Correspondence
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30Th June, 1892
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...
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Balance Sheet. 31st December, 1892
£ t. d. £ . d.
To Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fnnd:— Balance from 1891 7 15 9 Dividends received in 1892 49 10 - 57 5 9 Amount expended thereout 13 10 5 43 15 4 „ Blake Life-boat Reward...
Category: Accounts
People and Places
Keeping it in the family! Stephen Simmons, new recruit of Sheringham lifeboat crew, not only has all the skills required to be a lifeboatman but also has lifesaving in his blood - he joins his father, the helmsman of the lifeboat, and elder...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Boat (4)
JUNE 1ST. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A sailing boat had capsized off Worthing, but the man on board was rescued by another boat.-Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..