LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part I: Preparations
PART I: PREPARATIONS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN of tWO prototypes of the RNLI's new 47ft fast slipway lifeboat. The boats are to be built by Fairey Marine at Cowes, Isle of Wight, but the start of building only comes as the culmination of...
Category: Articles
The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting
THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...
Category: Meetings
Junella
Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella was aground off Eilean...
Four Girls
YACHT'S CREW SEE FLARES FROM FISHING BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported west of White Nothe, Ringstead...
Four Cobles
FOUR COBLES ESCORTED TO SAFETY Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 8.16 on the morning of the 24th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles were still at sea in worsening weather conditions.
At 8...
Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1905
SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 609) £. s. d. £. ». d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 36 16 6 Dunnett Widows and Orphans Fund 126 4 6 Reardon Samaritan Fund 133 10...
Category: Accounts
Shipwreck Off St. Andrew's
ABOUT noon on Sunday the 23rd Oct., during one of the most severe and protracted gales that have occurred on the east coast of Scotland for years, a brig was observed about five miles out standing across St. Andrew's Bay for the...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies Great Yarmouth & Gorleston-Atlantic 21 Joseph B. Press The turnout was as good as the glorious weather for the naming ceremony and service of dedication for Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Atlantic 21...
Category: Inaugurations
Collisions at Sea. The Loss of the Princess Alice
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
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