LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI ACCOUNTS for 1984 have yet to be completed, but they are likely to show that during the year at least £21 million has been raised. This figure reflects not only the tremendous efforts of the branches and guilds but also the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
POET ERIN, ISLE or MAN.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direc- tion of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (176)
NOVEMBER 9TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
During an air battle a German bomber had crashed into the sea, but only a patch of oil could be found. - Rewards, £16 10s..
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—On the afternoon of the 8th January, the Avonmouth haven master...
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Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
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The American Steamer Jonas Lie
J ANUARY 9 T H - ANGLE, AND ST.
DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. Both lifeboats were called to the help of the American steamer Jonas Lie, which had been torpedoed, off Grassholme Island, but they were recalled as all her crew had...
An Air Sea Rescue Launch
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 26th of November, 1952, it was learnt that an air sea rescue launch in North Bay had parted one mooring, and that the other was badly frayed. She had no crew aboard, and the R...
Nyon
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 7.57 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message that the motor vessel Nyon of Basle was ashore three and a half miles north- west of St. Abbs Head. At 8.15 the life-boat W. Ross...