LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
Category: Meetings
Belfort, of Rochelle
On the 12th April, shortly after midnight, signal-guns were reported to have been heard in the direction of the north end of the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate Life-boat, the Bradford, in. tow of the Vulcan steam-tug, at once pro- ceeded to sea...
The Passenger Steamer Lady Hudson Kinaham
During a dense fog in the Channel on the 27th May, the passenger steamer Ladt/ Hudson Kinahan, of Dublin, ran ashore half a mile to the eastward of the " Holt : Tail," on the, South Devon, coast.
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Change of Title of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the " ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—founded in 1824 for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck;" they may not,...
Category: Articles
The Fishing Trawler Onedin and a Motor Fishing Boat
January gales A HALFDECKER motor fishing boat was seen to be dragging her anchors off Arranmore, Aran Island, on the afternoon of Wednesday January 11, 1984.
A gale was blowing from the north west, the seas were very rough...
Lifeboat Services (From Page 118)
Lifeboat Services (from page 118) spectacles and dived into the water to help the woman. At the same time John Wall threw a line to the man approaching with the children.
On reaching the woman Richard Wheeler, a trained...
Category: Services
Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends
Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Salty sea-dogs John, Jeremy and Julian Brown, Trevor Grills, John Lethbridge, Billy Hawkins, Peter Rowe, John McDonnell and Jon Cleave form the current...
Category: Articles
Left: 'Watchdog' Co-Presenter Lynn Faulds Wood With Mrs Edna Mulhearn, a Keen Bingo Player Who Coined the Name Bingo Lifeline,
Left: 'Watchdog' co-presenter Lynn Faulds Wood with Mrs Edna Mulhearn, a keen bingo player who coined the name Bingo Lifeline, at the naming of the new lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol
The RNLI's charter docs not make provision (or the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and ihc National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
Category: Advertisement
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
Plymouth, Devon - At 3.50 a.m. on 16th July, 1966, a converted ship's lifeboat with four men on board was stated to be overdue. The occupants had gone fishing at the ledges nine miles out. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...