LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LIV. BULL BAY (Anglesey) The Curling, 34 feet by 7£ feet, 10 oars.
"READER, have you ever been at Ply- mouth?" asks the versatile Captain Fred- erick Marryatt in opening one of the happiest productions of...
Category: Articles
Ten-Year-Old Peter Jensen of Highgate Sent £907 Collected With His Splendid Guy to Hornsey Branch the Rnli He Said In His Letter Is His Favourite Charity Photograph By
Ten-year-old Peter Jensen of Highgate sent £9.07, collected with his splendid guy, to Hornsey branch. The RNLI, he said in his letter, is his favourite charity. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Andrew Franks.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in June were Carried out by the Following Stations
SCOTLAND Broughty Ferry, Angus - At 8.45 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, a small yacht wasseen to capsize near the Craig buoy. At this time another three yachts were also capsized by a sudden squall. The yacht club rescue boat while attempting to...
Category: Services
Princess Margaret Being Welcomed at the R.N.L.I, Stand at the International Boat Show By the Then Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, 6.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. Looking on (Centr
Princess Margaret being welcomed at the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show by the then Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, 6.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. Looking on (centre) is the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats of the World: Part I—European Organisations By Eric Middleton
IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 20th March, 1930.
THE HON. GEORGE COLVTLLE, in the Chair.
Decided to open a Life-boat Station at Lerwick, Shetland Isles.
Reported the receipt of the following special...
Category: Committee
On the Force of the Wind
IN the Register of Wrecks, which, always forms a portion of each number of this Journal, it will be observed that in addition.
to the direction of the wind, a column of figures is added to denote its force, by a scale, the...
Category: Articles
Alarm Given By a Train
JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
Category: Services
Gem of the Ocean
UPGANG AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.— During the afternoon of the 15th Feb- ruary the northerly wind freshened, bringing up a heavy sea, and at about 3.30 P.M. a telephone message from Runswick reported that a small vessel was driving southward in...
The Record Month by Month
The Record Month by Month 1946 Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore boats Rescue to Save Boats January . 51 103 4 15 - February . ...
Category: Annual Reports