LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
Category: Services
Boy and Uncle Rescued By Boatman
ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...
Category: Articles
St. Pierre
Storm tow HARTLAND POINT Coastguard informed lifeboat 70-001, Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at 0210 on February 6 that a trawler was sinking 281°T 26 miles from the Point. The lifeboat was under way by 0220 and 12 minutes...
Olga
Trial of patience A MESSAGE from the 1,100-ton coastal tanker Olga, on passage from Liverpool to Bergen, stating she was aground on Bhride Island and that the crew of 10 aboard required assistance, was intercepted by Portpatrick radio...
Index to the Branches
ABERDEEN. . . 223 ABERDOVEI . . 202 ABBRSOCH . . . 173 ABERYSTWTTH . 171 AOKEBGttL . . 227 ALDEBUBGH . . 211 ALLOA . . . . 227 ALHMOUTH . . 205 ANGLE . . . . 208 ANGLESEY . . . 170 ANSTRUTHEB . . 229 APPLBDORI . .179 ARANMORE . . 239...
Category: Branches
Your Letters
History of the membership scheme Sir - It is evident from your columns that there is some confusion as to the origins of the membership scheme. Consequently I feel it is time to put the record straight.
At its March meeting...
Category: Correspondence
Launching and Recovery PART II: BEACH LAUNCH by Edward Wake-Walker RNLI Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....
Category: Articles
The Help of Shipowners. A Record of Services to Over Sixty Vessels
A Record of Services to over Sixty Vessels.A Record of Services WE continue the list of effective services sercarried out by Life-boats during 1926 — services where lives have been rescued or help given — with the names of vessels and the...
Category: Donations
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles