LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Institution and the City of London
A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
When Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, named a new lifeboat at Ramsgate on Friday 16 July, it was an historic occasion in more ways than one. This was the first time that a lifeboat was named in honour of a...
Category: Inaugurations
Day Dawn, of Peterhead
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.50 A.M.
on Tuesday, the 26th October, 1937, a man reported that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, was near the rocks at South Head with her engine broken down, and that she was...
Midley Belle (1)
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
Coxswains of Three Lifeboats Which Were on Service for More Than 20 Hours at the Height of the Fastnet Storm:
Coxswains of three lifeboats which were on service for more than 20 hours at the height of the Fastnet storm:. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Creyv^board^boat face danger and tragedy inside cave on Atlantic coastThe crew of the Arun stationed at Ballyglass on the exposed north west coast of Ireland faced unusual dangers last October when the lifeboat and her Y-Boat were involved...
The 37Ft 6in Rother Class
The 37ft din Rother class lifeboat Shoreline is stationed at Blyth. The station honorary secretary is Dr Reginald Carr (I.) who is also Blyth's honorary medical adviser. He is a busy GP and when a call for the lifeboat comes while he is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
150th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Forfarshire— Grace Darling In Context By Georgette Purches Assistant Public Relations Officer
Is there in the field of history, or of fiction even, one instance of female heroism to compare for one moment, with this? wrote The Times in 1838.
The event to which the leading article in the newspaper referred was the...
Category: Articles
Louisa
TENBY.—During a strong gale from the S.E. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 1st January, 1888, signals of distress were shown by the ketch Louisa, of Cardiff, bound for Tenby with a cargo of coal, which was lying at anchor in Caldy Koads...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RYE, SUSSEX. — At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was...
Category: Services