LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
AUG. 8TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.
A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers’ Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea,...
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893
" As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is ' That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.' The last occasion on which I had the satisfaction of presiding at the Annual...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Calendar, 1930. All Saved!
From the painting by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., presented by tfce artist to the Institution..
Category: Drawings
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BELONGING TO on IN CONNECTION WITH T STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed £ or Named. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. In. NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-OS-TWEED - - - 37 - 8 - 12 1888 HOLY...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1903
Lives saved.
Fayaway, smack of Ramsey .. 2 Fenham, s.S., of Sunderland— assisted to save vessel.
Fingal, four-masted barque, of Dublin 32 Fishing Boats at Cullercoats, Filey, Gourdon, ...
Category: Services
The Princess Elizabeth and Jersey Life-Boatmen
On her visit to Jersey in June, 1949.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Humane Society's Award to Scottish Coxswain
THE testimonial on parchment of the Royal Humane Society has been awarded to Robert George Brunton, second coxswain of the Dunbar life- boat.
On the 9th of August, 1953, Mr.
Brunton climbed down a ...
Category: Awards
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS, 38 & 39 VICTORIA, CAP. 88.) THE Act -which was passed at the end of last Session for the better security of ships and sailors, although only to con- tinue in force for one year, is of consider- able importance, as...
Category: Articles
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tanker Wave Master
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Wave Master, of London, bound from the Persian Gulf, had asked for a boat to land the...