LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Collisions. The "Avalanche" and "Forest."
ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.
This time it is a collision between...
Category: Articles
For Some Time It Has Been the Practice of Apprentice Training Schools to Build
For some time it has been the practice of apprentice training schools to build clinker boarding boats for the Institution to an RNLI design. It is a practice of mutual benefit because clinker is the most skilled form of boat building, and so... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S Laura Fell
PEMBREY,CARMARTHENSHIRE.—At about 12.30 A.M. on the 14th October signals of distress were shown by the ss. Laura Fell, of London. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the S.W.. with thick rain and a very heavy sea. The signals were...
SSE support
We are now entering the third and final year of the RNLI’s partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).
SSE is committed to supporting the communities in which it operates. When work began on the Greater Gabbard...
Category: Articles
Index to the Branches
PAGE ABERDARE. . . 583 ABERDEEN , . .557 ABERDOVEY . . 585 ABERSOOH . . . 581 ABERYSTWITH 579, 580 ACCRINGTON . . 506 ACKERGILL . . 561 ALDEBURQB . . 534 ALLOA . . . . 561 ALNMOUTH. . . 527 ANGLE . . . . 685 ANGLESEY . . .679 ANSTRUTHEB . ....
Category: Branches
Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson, T.D., D.L., J.P.
Colonel the Hon. Harold B. Robson, a Vice-President of the Institution, died on 13th October, 1964, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management in 1933 and was elected a Vice-President in 1955. He served on the general purposes...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Rion
NOETH DEAL, KENT.—The's.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...
The Former German Yacht Hildgund
JULY 29TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 1.56 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported red flares five miles south-south-east of Leathercoats. A moderate south-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was rough.
The motor life-boat,...
The Admiralty Salvage Craft L.C. 18
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DECEMBER 4TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 9.15 at night the coastguard at Hope Cove reported a vessel ashore at the lower end of Skerries, three miles to the east of Start Point. Shewas the Admiralty salvage craft...
New Ways of Raising Money
King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...
Category: Donations