LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1894
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Category: Services
The Life-Boat Station
TUB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 274 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Norwegan Barque Iris
On the 14th February the Norwegian barque Iris, of Stavager, had several of her sails blown away in a terrific gale off the Mull of Cantyre, and was compelled to run for Machrihannish Bay, where she let go both her bower anchors. Being...
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...
On Saturday July 2 Port St.Mary Lifeboat the 54' Arun the Cough Ritchie Went to the Help of a Small Boat Reported Drifting With a Fouled Propeller on to the Rocks Belo
On Saturday, July 2 Port St Mary lifeboat, the 54' Arun The Cough Ritchie, went to the help of a small boat reported drifting with a fouled propeller on to the rocks below Ronaldsway Flying Club, about eight miles north east of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Scout: Hm the Queen Names the New Hartlepool 44' Waveney Lifeboat
WHFN HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH named Hartlepool's new 44' Waveney lifeboat on Thursday, July 14, it was an historic moment for both the RNLI and the Scout Association; for the RNLI it was the first time a reigning monarch had ever...
Category: Inaugurations
When In Buckie the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
A few days later, when in Buckie, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Jones Shipyard, where they saw the 48ft 6in Solent relief lifeboat The Royal British Legion Jubilee, which Her Majesty had named at Henley in 1972, ten years ago;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats, Lieut.-Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., Greeting the Secretary General of the Norwegian Life-Boat Institution
The Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut-Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., greeting the Secretary General of the Norwegian Life-boat Institution, Capt. Olaf Bjb'rnstad, when the Norwegian rescue cruiser Ambassador Bay berthed at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Perth
DEC. 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.17 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had stranded on the Long Sand about thirteen miles south-east of Clacton Pier. A W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 3...
The S.S. Donaghadee and Arestal
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 8.15 on the night of the 1st of April, 1949, the Civic Guard reported a message from the Coast Life-saving Service that the s.s. Donaghadee, of Belfast, was aground at Castlerock, Dundalk Bay, with a broken rudder...