LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of the Institution, 1924. Appeal to Honorary Secretaries
THE Secretary of the Institution proposes, if possible, to compile its history ; for publication in 1924, and he will be ' most grateful to all Honorary Secretaries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be...
Category: Articles
The Warriors of the Sea
LOUD thundered the breakers on the dark Atlantic shore, Ihe sky was mantled in the shroud of starless night, The lightning flash'd, and thunder roar'd, 'Midst the howling wind and hurricane's...
Category: Poetry
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1898-99
FOR THE YEAR 1898-99.
SHOWING ALSO THE PRESHNT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.
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Category: Charts
The Slipway Trials Gave Tenby's Lifeboat Crew the Chance to Test the Tamar for Themselves
The Slipway Trials Gave Tenby's Lifeboat Crew The Chance To Test The Tamar For Themselves. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left: Air Crewman Chic Pritchard Prepares For A Helicopter Winching Exercise With Padstow Lifeboat Volunteers
Left: Air Crewman Chic Pritchard prepares for a helicopter winching exercise with Padstow lifeboat volunteers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hope
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—Early on the morning of 23rd August the dandy Hope, of St.
Ives, bound from Buncorn to Penryn with coal, having dragged her anchor and parted her chain, struck on the Dutchman Sandbank, opposite to Penmon,...
A Surfboard
nflatable saves surfer in conditions outside normal limits for D class Helmsman Peter Roberts and crew members Gavin Forehead and James Dixon of St Agnes were aboard the station's D class lifeboat on 30 October 1996 in a service which...
Centenary of the Kilmore Station
IN 1846 the Institution was asked to provide a life-boat for Kilmore, County Wexford, and it stationed a boat there on the 28th of July, 1847. She was put under the care of the coastguard.
There is no record of any services...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1884
THE Wreck Register which has been issued within the last few days by the Board of Trade affords, in its elaborate and care- fully prepared tables, abundant matter for consideration and thought. Many of the facts laid before us draw from us...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...
Category: Articles