LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
ROSSLARE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 14th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W., a vessel was seen making for Wexford Harbour with ensign flying half-mast high. At the entrance of the harbour the vessel missed stays, and her only remaining...
Category: Services
The Motor Sailing Yacht Eladnid
Fast on West Barrow A RED FLARE was sighted in the vicinity of South West Swin Buoy by MV Hounslow at 0110 on Saturday, August 16, 1975.
Two minutes later a second flare was seen and reported to Warden Point Coastguard via...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY., 1st Jan., 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., F.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the. Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspon- dence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
'Thursday, 10th May, 1934.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the chair.
Passed a vote of thanks to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., president of the Institution, for his kindness in presiding at the 110th...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.
November Meeting.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...
Category: Services
Life-Boats and Anarchy
THE association between the RNLI and Russian anarchists may appear to be an unlikely one. Nevertheless, perhaps the greatest of the Russian anarchists, Prince Peter Kropotkin, was a profound admirer of the life-boat service in this country....
Category: Articles
Doctors In Life-Boats
CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Breeches Buoy from a Trawler
At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
Category: Services
Feature Better Beaches, Safer Seas
The RNLI's Beach Rescue pilot scheme has been running all summer on selected beaches in the south west of England. As the time approaches when a full evaluation of the pilot will be made, Jane Smythson visited one of the pilot projects...
Category: Articles
Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc
THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instrumental in saving lives during the year 1854-5.
April 23,...
Category: Medals