LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search
9325 search results for 'Yacht'
List view Card view

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society

Date: October 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 62

THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...

Category: Meetings

The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: May 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 116

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

Category: Articles

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: October 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 74

MILFORD HAVEN.—It being thought desirable to place a life-boat at Milford, the Institution 'decided to form a station there. A substantial house was accord- ingly constructed at Angle Point, a position which enables the life-boat to...

Category: Articles

Feature Coming of Age

Date: Autumn 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 562

The RNLI has been saving lives at sea for 178 years. Beach Rescue has only been a part of this for two years, but it has come a long way since its formation as a trial project in early 2001 The RNLI became involved in Beach Rescue as a...

Category: Articles

Services of Life-Boats

Date: October 1853

Volume: 01

Issue: 10

NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...

Category: Services

The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom

Date: August 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 133

LIV. BULL BAY (Anglesey) The Curling, 34 feet by 7£ feet, 10 oars.

"READER, have you ever been at Ply- mouth?" asks the versatile Captain Fred- erick Marryatt in opening one of the happiest productions of...

Category: Articles

Naming the Life-Boat

Date: November 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 242

IN previous issues of this Journal * the building and testing of a Life-boat have been described, and it is proposed in this and ensuing articles to give some account of the further life history of the boat.

The boat being...

Category: Articles

People and Places

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Lottery To comply with Gaming Act requirements it was necessary to draw the 36th national lottery outside Poole headquarters for the very first time. The reason for this was that the date for the draw, January 31, fell on a Saturday. It did...

Category: Articles

The Late Mrs. Williams, of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey

Date: January 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 23

IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.

This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...

Category: Obituaries

Feature: from Rookie to Rescuer

Date: Winter 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 575

To become a fully competent lifesaver, crew members need to develop a wide range of skills. The RNLI has developed a Competence Based Training system that helps crew members acquire these skills and maintain them through lifeboat station...

Category: Articles