LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck of the 'Pomona'
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
Category: Services
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
DURING the summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held at the Lizard, Appledore, Peterhead, Brixham, Eastbourne and Bembridge. Of these, the Lizard boat went to her station in 1920, the Peter- head and Eastbourne...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th October, 1914.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building,...
Category: Committee
Other Irb Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 230, 238 and 244, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
The Chemical Tanker Multitank Ascania (1)
Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crewsThurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident involving...
Slick rescue
In the midst of an ecological disaster, St Mary’s and Penlee volunteers helped keep 35 people safe.
The crude oil supertanker Torrey Canyon left Kuwait on 19 February 1967 for Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Her crew were...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
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READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...
Category: Articles
The Use of Oil to Reduce Breaking Seas
IN 1914 supplies of oil were issued to eight Stations with a view to finding out the best way of using it to reduce breaking seas, and in 1920, as a result of these experiments, all Stations were supplied with canvas bags, pierced with holes...
Category: Articles
A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs