LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stations, Fetes, Flagdays. They Are All Potential Sources of Income and the Volunteers Respond As They Always Have Done - Don the Oilskins and Go for It!
Stations, fetes, flagdays. They are all potential sources of income and the volunteers respond as they always have done - don the oilskins and go for it!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blackbird and a Canoe
Three calls A CANOE with two children aboard, overdue on passage from Colne Point to West Mersea, was reported to the deputy launching authority of West Mersea ILB station by Thames Coastguard at 2006 on Monday July 31,...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4fh January, 1872. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Loch Long, of Aberdeen
St. Andrews.
In the middle of the night of March 8th the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen, went ashore in a heavy snow squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; the sea was rough ; and...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...
Category: Services
Four Life-Boats Searched for Survivors In the North Sea When the Oil Drilling Rig Sea Gem Collapsed on Boxing Day With the Loss of Eight Lives
Four life-boats searched for survivors in the North Sea when the oil drilling rig Sea Gem collapsed on Boxing Day with the loss of eight lives. Here one of the lifeboats is standing by at the buoyed wreck. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Final Combined Exercise Between Raf Chivenor Air Station and Appledore Lifeboat Off Croyde Beach August 1 1974: the Last of the Pilots Is Lifted from the Sea
Final combined exercise between RAF Chivenor air station and Appledore lifeboat, off Croyde Beach, August 1, 1974: the last of the pilots is lifted from the sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline
Bronze medallist David Wilson, of Thornhill, Dewsbury.
West Yorkshire, plans to be in Rome next year to take part in the World Model Powerboat Championships, flush with his success in the 1987 event at Schwerin, East...
Category: Articles
Sea Shanties By Toc H
AT the first annual meeting of the new Hornsey Branch, a special programme of sea chanties was given by members of the Crouch End Toe H. The singers were dressed as a Life-boat Crew in jerseys and caps, and all the chanties were sung with...
Category: Meetings