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Life-Belts

Date: December 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 07

No life-boat station can be considered complete without a set of life-belts for the boat's crew, and the several local committees should insist upon having them, and upon the belts being put on, before the men go afloat. The qualities...

Category: Articles

BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME

Date: 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 616 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2016

Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …

The...

Category: Articles

Annual Report

Date: April 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 32

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 17th day of March, 1859, The Right Hon. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair, The following...

Category: Annual Reports

Annual Report

Date: April 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 44

At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 18th day of March, 1862, The Right Honourable WILLIAM CUBITT, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, The following Report of the...

Category: Annual Reports

The Wreck Register and Chart for 1868

Date: October 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 74

As the year rolls round, and in the midst of great storms, this sad tidings of disaster; at sea, the Wreck Register, makes its ap- pearance, and brings afresh to our recollec- tion the scenes of desolation witnessed on too many parts of our...

Category: Annual Reports

A Challenge to Branches

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

The Record of North Sunderland and Stromness.

IN anarticlein The Lifeboat for November, 1925, on the centenary of the Appledore Station we gave the remarkable record of the present Committee, five members of which had...

Category: Branches

Notre Dame De Toutes Aides

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

A telephone mes- sage from the Kentish Knock Light Vessel, in the early morning of the 7th April, reported the stranding of the schooner Notre Dame de Toutes Aides, of Nantes, on the sands. The Margate Life-boat attempted to launch, but the...

A Bronze Medal Service at Blyth

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...

Category: Services

New Directions to Restore the Apparently Drowned

Date: July 1858

Volume: 04

Issue: 29

1. Treat the patient instantly, on the spot, in the open air—exposing the face and chest to the breeze, except in severe weather.

To CLEAR THE THROAT— 2. Place the patient gently face downwards, with one wrist under the...

Category: Articles

Gleneden (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.

At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...