LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated fry Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IH 1824 —SUPPORTED SOLELY BX VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Heire (1)
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 5.17 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel was in distress, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 6 P.M. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The lifeboat...
American Connection: the Naming of Two Atlantic 21 Lifeboats American Ambassador at Atlantic College and Spirit of America at Hunstanton
Atlantic College Atlantic College is a remarkable place in many respects. Housed in St Donat's Castle, built in the fifteenth century, it is perched on rocky slopes which tumble down to the waters of the Bristol Channel. Within the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Angling Vessel Badger
Pushed to the limit Two inshore lifeboats were tested to their limits on 9 March 2002, when an angling vessel with a crew of three was in difficulty 1.5 miles from Southend-on-Sea. The weather was fair and dry.
but there...
When He Landed This 21 Pound Salmon
When he landed this 21 pound salmon, Commander William Donald, chairman of Keswick branch, was so pleased that he sent the equivalent amount in sterling to the RNLI. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of P. Haworth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Life-Boat Service. A Survey and a Tribute
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HAVE received a copy of a pamphlet giving a brief historical survey of the work of our sister society in France, from the pen of Commandant Granjon de Lepiney,...
Category: Articles
The Year 1939
IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.
There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...
Category: Services
The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House depot had asked for the life-boat to be launched to take a sick man off the Helwick light- vessel...
the Eglantine
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.50 P.M.
on the 17th January, 1939, the St.
Ann's Head coastguard reported that a French schooner was in distress two miles south of the Head. She was the Eglantine, of...
The S.S. Caronilla
The No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at 8.45 A.M. on 9th November to the assistance of a steamer which had been reported ashore on the Kentish Knock Sand. The vessel proved to be the s.s.
Coronilla, of...