LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Institution and the War
WE have the pleasure of giving a list, brought up to date, of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of Permanent Crews, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His...
Category: Articles
Eastbourne October 21 1986:
Eastbourne, October 21, 1986: heavy rain and a strong south-westerly force 8 wind greeted guests at the handing over and dedication ceremony of Eastbourne's new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat. At 2.30 pm the ceremony began at the site... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE annual meeting of the Committee was held on the 10th January last, at the General Post Office, Mr. W. H. HAINES, of the House of Lords, presiding. The report, read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.R.G.S., the honorary secretary, stated that the...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Pink Rose
Nov. 2ND. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 4.15 A.M. the motor life-boat At 4 A.M. the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress about four miles S.S.E. of the life-boat station. A southeasterly gale was...
The S.S. Ben Avon
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY.—During a terrific gale from W. by S. at about 10 A.M. on the 20th January, a steamer was observed apparently in distress. The Dickinson Edleston Life-boat went to her assistance, and found that she was the s.s. Ben Avon, of...
The Recent Experiments at the South Foreland With Lighthouse Illuminants
THE experiments -with lighthouse illu- minants -which have been in progress at the South Foreland for twelve months, under a Committee of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, were brought to a conclusion in March last, and the Report was...
Category: Articles
Lion, of Goole
BROADSTAIRS.—At 5 P.M., 12th March, the schooner Lion, of Goole, bound from Hull to the Isle of Wight, was observed driving before a heavy gale at north, with signals of distress flying. The signal guns of the station having failed to...
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat The Ivy Dale
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Spurn . Point coastguard telephoned that an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, the Ivy Dale, of London, had run ashore off Withernsea and had damaged her rudder. She asked for the...
Princess of Thule
During foggy weather on the 25th May the schooner Princess of Thule, of Chester, bound from London to Liverpool, stranded on the Fish Rock, Treaddur Bay. At 4.30 A.M. the Life-boat Ramon Cabrera was launched to assist her, but just as she...
The Record Breakers:
The record breakers: on Sunday, June 14, 1987, in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Eire, 329 sailing boats formed the shape of a sunflower beating the previous world record of 192 boats to moor alongside one another - a feat since ratified by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs