LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
October
Launches 32. Lives rescued 31.
OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the...
Category: Services
The Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1935 - ... 64,350 The Woods of which a Life-boat is...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles
Roving Commission: the Rnli Mobile Training Unit Brings Up-To-The-Minute Radio Information to Lifeboat Crews
A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.
The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .
'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...
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The Annual Meetings '99
A year in the life of the KNLI… The RNLH's anniversary year annual meetings were held at the Barbican on 1j May 1999.
As well as 'Pfiviunt'pf a review of another hii' successful year Chairman David Acland...
Category: Meetings
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...
Category: Services
The Weather In 1896 from a Life-Boat Point of View
THE past year up to within the last ten days of September was a singularly uneventful one as regards Life-boat work; in fact, on the 22nd September the number of lives rescued by the Life-boats only totalled 65, and had the weather continued...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1910
Jan. 13.—Five men put off in a boat for the purpose of saving the crew of the smack Margaret Ann, of Fishguard, which stranded in a moderate W.N.W. gale and rough sea, off Bumham, on the 1st December, 1909.—Reward, 11. 10s. Also 18s. to...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, llth Sept., 1862.—Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...
Category: Committee
Rnli News
Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.
The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...
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