LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Important National Question
WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles
Closing of the Wexford Station
FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...
Category: Articles
Birmingham's Christmas Fair
A CHRISTMAS FAIR was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, lent by the City Council, on 24th November.
The fair was opened by the Countess of Warwick. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, supported...
Category: Articles
January
JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
Category: Services
Vagrant Gypsy
Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The coastguard at...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
White Kitten
Five saved RED FLARES fired by a yacht off Beer Head were reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Lyme Regis ILB station at 1942 on Monday August 13, 1979. Five minutes later, Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 ILB was launched manned by...
M.F.V. Arctic Solatair, two Motor Boats and two Sailboards
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
The Loss of the Steam-Ship 'London'
A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...
Category: Articles
A Record Number of Visitors to This Year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, Visited the R.N.L.I. Stand Between 4th-14th January, 1967
A record number of visitors to this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, visited the R.N.L.I. stand between 4th-14th January, 1967. Principal exhibits were the new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy, open for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs