LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy (1)
FEBRUARY 11TH. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. The lifeboats were called out to search for an aeroplane’s dinghy and it was found by the Donaghadee life-boat, but it was only a test call by the air-sea rescue service. - Rewards,...
A Motor Boat
AUGUST 30TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A motor boat had broken down, but it was learned later that her crew had landed in their small boat, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless - Rewards, £5 17s. 6d.
A Small Boat
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and HoIyhead, Angelsey.—22nd March.
Searched without success for a small boat which was adrift and eventually made land in Co. Down after thirty-five hours at sea.—Rewards, Porthdinllaen,...
Britannia
Margate, Kent.—At about 5 P.M. on the 25th October the coastguard reported that a small fishing boat had broken down and was drifting ashore east of Margate jetty. A very heavy N.W. squall was blowing, with a roughsea. The motor life-boat...
The Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...
Category: Articles
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor My father and I witnessed the whole incident reported in ‘Between a rock and an angry sea’ in the LifeboatWinter...
Category: Correspondence
Sailing on Through Stormy Seas
Highlights from the Chairman's report to the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2003At the Lifeboats AGM in May, Chairman Peter Nicholson looked back over another successful year, but warned that the Institution needs to react to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane
Troon, and Girvan, Ayrshire.—14th January, 1938. An aeroplane was missing, but it had come down on land near Largs. The owners made a donation to the Institution.—Rewards : Troon, £15 9s.; Girvan, £13 2s. 6d..
Rescuing a Cabinet Minister
The Shoreham Harbour motor life-boat returning on 12th September, after rescuing the Right Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, whose motor boat had broken down when he was out fishing.
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Category: Photographs
Arantzazu Mendi
Cloughey, Co. Down.—9th May, 1939.
The Arantzazu Mendi, a steamer of Bilbao, had stranded, but was in no immediate danger.—Rewards, £10 11s.
6d. (For another service to this steamer see pages 131 and...