LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Right Way Up' the Rnli Exhibition Held at the Science Musuem Kensington This Summer Was Opened By Jimmy Savile Obe He Is Seen (Right) With Richard Oakley
'Right Way Up', the RNLI exhibition held at the Science Musuem, Kensington, this summer, was opened by Jimmy Savile, OBE. He is seen (right) with Richard Oakley, MBE, (r.) designer of the first modern selfrighting lifeboat, the37ft... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thank God for the Life-Boat Men!
WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...
Category: Poetry
Services of the Life-Boats
Ranugate, Kent.—During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February the fishing-vessel Iris of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of three hands, stranded in Pegwell Bay. Information that the vessel was in danger reached Ramsgate at 11.45 A.M., and the...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
SATURDAY, 18th March, 1893.
The Annual General Meeting of the friends and supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE- BOAT INSTITUTION took place this day at St.
Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road,...
Category: Committee
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in August were Carried out by the Following Stations
Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXV.-ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLES.
The Henry Dundas, 37 feet long, 9 feet beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat was stationed at St. Mary's, the capital of the Scilly Isles, in 1874. Previous to that time it...
Category: Articles
The Rules Made By the Board of Trade Under the Life-Saving Appliances Act, 1888
THESE rules, which are to come into effect on the 1st of November, were signed I a few days ago by Sir MICHAEL HICKSBEACH, and have just been presented to j Parliament. They are certainly of a most elaborate character—it is difficult to see...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Services of the World: The United States Coast Guard
By REAR-ADMIRAL W. S. REYNOLDS, Commandant U.S. Coast Guard.Anderson tendered his services to the surf man. The acceptance of the offer automatically placed Anderson, for the time, in charge of the station crew, a responsibility which, as...
Category: Articles
A Rescue—Described By the Rescued. The Yacht Gull and the Shoreham Harbour Life-Boat
ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....
Category: Services