LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUDDON-NESS, DUNDEE.—On the 3rd of December, 1862, the schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh, with a cargo of wheat from Rostock, struck on the Abertay Bank, the weather being foggy, with a strong gale blowing from the S.E. As soon as she was...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1886.
His GRACE THE DUKE or NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., President, in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee
The Blackpool Life-Boat Maria Noble Landing An Injured Man on 1st March 1968 Coxswain JW Gerrard Is on the Extreme Right
The Blackpool life-boat Maria Noble landing an injured man on 1st March, 1968. Coxswain J.W. Gerrard is on the extreme right.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Eight Volunteers Lost At Sea In 1947 Are Remembered In Stained Glass
Above: Eight volunteers lost at sea in 1947 are remembered in stained glass. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dutch Life-Boat Service
THOSE who were in London during the centenary celebrations of the Institution in July, 1924, will remember seeing on the Thames the Dutch Twin-screw Motor Life-boat Brandaris, which is just two inches longer than our largest type—the 60-foot...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the 31st December, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Duugeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Trawler Moray and Empire Ned (1)
DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....
Yla Section
THE Y.L.A., with a growing membership of 7,000, continues to recruit members and with the yachting season in full swing it is hoped that members will do their utmost to recruit yet more names to the books.
By joining the...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
A FOOTBALL match between members of learned professions and the police, which took place at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, raised some £70 for the Institution. It was organised by the Rev. J. H. F. Wilson, who himself played in the...
Category: Donations