LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Greyhound
ST. IVES, CORNWALL. — On the 29th March, during a storm and tremendous sea, accompanied by blinding showers of hail and snow, the ketch Greyhound, of Porthcawl, was observed running for the harbour. The. Life-boat Covent Garden was launched...
The Ladies of Caister
THE presentation to Miss Alice Brown, vice president of the Caister on Sea ladies' life-boat guild, of a silver badge has created something of a record. For her family now holds one gold badge and three silver...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. — Fourteen Whitby cobles being overtaken by a rough sea while fishing on the 13th Feb. 1900, were unable to return home and were seen to be making for Runswick. The Life-boat Gape of Good Hope was launched at 1.30 P.M....
Category: Services
Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain Gordon Bellamy, of Llandudno, Caernar- vonshire. He was appointed bowman in July, 1958, and became second cox- swain in November, 1960. He has been coxswain of the Llandudno life-boat since January, 1961, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Main Photo- RNLI Operational Lifeboats
Main photo- RNLI operational lifeboats turn and sail past the quayside. - View image in PDF
Photo: Michael Walsh. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Hundreds Of Fancy-Dressed Swimmers And Spectators Brave The Elements At Charmouth Beach Each Christmas
Hundreds of fancy-dressed swimmers and spectators brave the elements at Charmouth beach each Christmas, thanks to Carol and Geoff Prosser at the Royal Oak, to raise money for Lyme Regis lifeboat station, so far to the tune of over... - View image in PDF
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If Only They Were All This Easy to Launch
'If only they were all this easy to launch...' RNLI staff watch the launch of one of the scale models of a proposed new lifeboat design at the Institution's Poole HQ in March. Pictured are (from left to right behind model): Lt... - View image in PDF
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, Tor the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
founded in 1824.—Supported Try Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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A clearer picture
The RNLI’s Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1854 (excerpt shown left) states: ‘Loss of life (as far as can be ascertained) 1,549.’ Two years earlier, the Lifeboat admitted that: ‘No complete record of shipwrecks is kept …’ but the quoted...
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June (1)
JUNE MEETING CARNE, Co. WEXFORD. On the night of the 16th March, 1941, the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford Haven, when on her way to the fishing grounds, ran on to the Whelkeen Rock, a mile off shore, S.S.E. of Wexford. The weather...
Category: Services