LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Echo, of London
Another excellent service was performed by this valuable life-boat on the 17th December. Soon after midnight a vessel was reported on shore at Eccles, about a mile and a half from Palling. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind from the N.W. at...
Princess of Newhaven
MOTOR CRUISER TOWED AFTER CREW LAND Eastbourne, Sussex. At 6.15 on the evening of the 6th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was ashore on the rocks at Birling Gap. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache...
Jack Simpson (R) Is Photographed Before He Embarks on His 100 Length Sponsored Swim at St.Dunstan's Pool Ovingdean Which Raised About £400 for the Rnli This Was a Remarkable Achieve
Jack Simpson (r.) is photographed before he embarks on his 100 length sponsored swim at St Dunstan's Pool, Ovingdean which raised about £400 for the RNLI. This was a remarkable achievement particularly as Mr Simpson is blind. Bill... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
To the Help of Foreigners.
Of 1108 launches during the year 251 were to foreign vessels belonging to eighteen different countries and 608 lives were rescued from them. Never has the Lifeboat Service more faithfully carried out the promise which it made when it was...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
The Ministry of Defence Range Finder M.V. Dolwen
Fire rescue WHEN THE Ministry of Defence range finder m.v. Dolwen was reported on fire nine miles out on December 8, 1972, the Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, lifeboat was alerted.
At 4.37 p.m. the Howard Marryat, a 46-foot...
Mary Ann, of New Quay
On the 14th February the schooner Mary Anne, of New Quay, while attempting to enter the Boyne with a cargo of Indian corn, during a strong wind from the S.W. and a heavy surf, struck on Drogheda Bar. The life-boat stationed at that place...
The Life-Boat Saturday Movement
SINCE the publication of the last number of our quarterly journal this popular movement has been extending its ope- rations north, south, east and west with marked success, and wherever a Life-boat Saturday demonstration or collection has...
Category: Articles
Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
Category: Articles