LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (12)
DECEMBER 7TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
A steamer had been in collision, but a destroyer picked up the survivors.- Rewards, £10 7s..
Robert and Henry of Dundalk
On the 13th December, 1859, the brigantine Robert and Henry, of Dun- dalk, ran ashore on the Horse Bank, at the entrance of the River Mersey; intelligence being conveyed to Lytham of the disaster, the Institution's life-boat at that...
The Mumbles (Below): a New Winch Installed In the Boathouse Last January Was Brought Across from Swansea Dock By An Army Landing Craft to Be Hauled Up the Slipway
The Mumbles (below): A new winch, installed in the boathouse last January, was brought across from Swansea Dock by an army landing craft to be hauled up the slipway by the old Webber winch which it is replacing.
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Category: Photographs
A Governor of the Institution 15- Year-Old Nigel Rankin on Board Whitby Lifeboat Nigel Came to the Rnli Stand at the Boat Show With Over £10 He Had Saved from His Pock
A governor of the Institution, 15- year-old Nigel Rankin, on board Whitby lifeboat. Nigel came to the RNLI stand at the Boat Show with over £10 he had saved from his pocket money to join Shoreline.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Rowing Boat
During a strong W.S.W. breeze with heavy sea on the 12th August, a man put off in a small rowing-boat, but got into diffi- culties, and was seen drifting with the tide rapidly towards the Gorton Sands.
His signals of...
A Pulling Boat
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin. — At 6.40 on the night of the 13th of March, 1949, a man telephoned to the life-boat station that a pulling boat with two girls in it was drifting down the river Liffy. There was a fresh south- westerly wind, the sea was...
A Motor Boat
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 8.50 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, the Mizen Head lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was broken down close to the Skelligs Rock. The lifeboat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings at 9.10 in...
A Rowing Boat (3)
JUNE 2ND. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.
At about 4.10 P.M. a message came that a rowing boat with two persons on board wasin difficulties in Youghal Bay. The wind was due east and increasing, with a ground swell, and the boat was...
A Dinghy (1)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.2 p.m.
on 20th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had capsized about half a mile west of the harbour entrance. At 6.5 the IRB launched in a slight southerly breeze and a...
A Vessel (6)
APRIL 5TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
A vessel was reported to be in difficulties, with a sloop standing by, but in the gale which was blowing, with a very heavy sea running, it was impossible for the sloop to pass a rope and...