LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th April, 1860. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.,in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.
Category: Committee
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PENZANCE.—The Life-boat stationed some years since at Penzance has been replaced by a new one provided by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
The new boat is 36 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, and rows 12 oars double - banked....
Category: Articles
Prime Minister of New Zealand Landed By a Life-Boat
ON October 30th the Atlantic Fleet gave a battle practice display off Portland which was witnessed by" the Prime Ministers of the Dominions.
After the display, the H.1VL Destroyer Westminster took Mr. Coates, the Prime...
Category: Articles
The Watson (Cabin) Type of Motor Life-Boat
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boatsALTHOUGH the Barnett (Twin Screw) Boat, built for the Station at New Brighton, was the first Cabin Life-boat to be laid down for the Institution's fleet, the...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Birkbeck Birthday Readers might be interested to hear that the lifeboat Edward Birkbeck, shown above on Deganwy beach, is rapidly approaching her 100th birthday and still in regular use.
The hull is an improved Norfolk and...
Category: Correspondence
Harbour Life-Boats and the Life-Preserving Apparatus
WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
Category: Articles
A Tender
Capsized tender ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday December 22, 1981, Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, was at his home overlooking the seafront when, at 1555, he heard cries for help. Scanning thebay with his binoculars he saw two men...
Lifeboat Quiz Answers (From Page 18)
Lifeboat quiz answers (from page 18) 1—(a) Aith, Shetlands;(b) Lowestoft, Suffolk; (c) St Helier, Jersey; and (d) Valentia, Co. Kerry.
2—The first lifeboat designed to work under sail was the Frances Ann, built at Lowestoft...
Category: Articles