LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ex-Ship's Life-Boat Herald D.
Lifeboat and casualty swept by breakers during rescue The Director of the RNLI has written to the Cullercoats station congratulating the Helmsman, Robert Oliver, and the crew of the C class inflatable. The letter followed a service to an...
The Botnere Romanies
The Botnere Romanies, one of the more unusual entries in she 1981 Shrewsbury branch raft race on the River Severn, an event held on the last Saturday in Julv each vear. More than 60 craft took part in the mile-and-a-quarter race, raising... - View image in PDF
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The Sailing Barge Asphodel
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 8.3 p.m. on igth May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the radio ship Olga Patricia had reported that a fishing smack was firing red flares about one mile north of her. The life-boat...
The Heaving Line
The heaving line. photograph by courtesy of Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. City of Amsterdam
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 2.50 on the morning of the 25th of May, 1958, the managing director of the owners of the S.S. City of Amsterdam, of Dublin, informed the honorary secretary that her master had collapsed on the bridge of...
The Screw Steamer Ocean Queen, of Newcastle
About 1-30 A.M., on the 19th April, the weather being thick and foggy, signals of distress were observed from a vessel on the rocks off this place.
The Whitby life-boat Lucy was soon launched through a heavy surf, and suc-...
The Annual Meetings
The South Bank Meetings 1989 The Annual General Meeting Presentation of Awards for 1988Once again the RNLI's annual meetings - held at the South Bank in London on 16 May - were able to reflect on a very successful 12 months for the...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Stranmore
GAVE A COURSE IN THE FOG Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 27th of March, 1947, the Tara coastguard sent a warning message that a small vessel appeared to be in danger near Butter Pladdy Buoy.
The weather...
The S.S. Arabian
BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 7th October the s.s. Arabian, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Gibraltar with a general cargo, went ashore about a mile and a half westward of the East Mouse, near Bull Bay, during a dense fog...
The Lord Mayor of London Sir Charles Trinder Unveiled a Plaque on 4Th March 1969 to Commemorate the Foundation of the RNLI on 4Th March 1824 at 26 Bishopsgate
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Trinder, unveiled a plaque on 4th March, 1969, to commemorate the foundation of the R.N.L.I. on 4th March, 1824, at 26 Bishopsgate, London. It was on this site that a meeting was held which led to the... - View image in PDF
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