LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...
Category: Articles
Atlantic College St.Donat's Castle
Atlantic College, St Donat's Castle: After naming the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, John J. Louis, Jnr, the American Ambassador aboard American Ambassador (I) with Andrew Stuart, headmaster of the college and chairman of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart
WE are glad to be in a position to present to our readers our customary annual review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1913, in connexion with the...
Category: Articles
Descendants of William Wouldhave In Australia
LAST year the Institution lent photographs of portraits of Sir William ! I Hillary and Henry Greathead, and of a j i bust of William Wouldhave, to illustrate ; an article called " The Red Cross of the I Sea : the Romance of the...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 August 1995 show that far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,031 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) 650 lives were saved (an average of more than a day) Some...
Category: Articles
Fishing smack "Ebenezer" of Lowestoft, after the crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Motor Life-boat, "Agnes Cross."
Fishing smack " Ebenezer " of Lowestoft, after the crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Motor Life-boat, "Agnes Cross.". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (5)
FEBRUARY 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A steamer had been damaged in an air raid, but all the injured were taken ashore by a speed boat and the steamer herself was taken in tow by a tug. - Rewards, £21 18s. 6d..
Letters and Membership
etter All letters featured here relate to the Inshore Lifeboat Centre (ILC) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where all RNLI inshore lifeboats are built and maintained, as featured in the winter 2005/06 issue of the Lifeboat Our cover features...
Category: Correspondence
the Winch Takes the Weight the Quarter Stoppers Are Removed and Steadily the Lifeboat Is Hauled Up the Slipway
. . the winch takes the weight, the quarter stoppers are removed and steadily the lifeboat is hauled up the slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ailsea
Workington, Cumberland. At 6.35 on the morning of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the trawler Ailsea had broken down with engine trouble half- way between St. Bees and Meikle Ross in the Solway Firth...