LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
THE commerce of the world has increased, and is increasing so rapidly, and especially that of this great commercial nation, that the danger of collision between the innumerable ships that are passing and repassing each other, and crossing...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—A yawl belonging to Wexford broke adrift on the night of the 27th May, 1902. A strong gale from W.S.W. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy sea. Owing to the stress of weather the crew were unable to make the...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1901
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Town Hall, Westminster, on Saturday, the 20th day of April, 1901, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G-., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...
Category: Services
The Life-Boatman's Log
France Honours the Life-boat Service A Decoration for a Cornish ex-Coxswain ON the 14th of July last, a reception was held at University College, South- ampton to mark the celebrations of France's national day, Le Quatorze...
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Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To HAROLD J. BRADFORD, on his retirement, after serving for 6j years as coxswain, ~l years as second coxswain and 4| years as bowman of the Exmouth life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an ex-gratia grant.
Category: Awards
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Stuck between high cliffs and high seasFowey Lifeboats launched no fewer than 73 times last year - but few shouts were as dramatic as the one that led to the rescue of a family stranded on a nearby beach, fearing for their lives A camping...
Feature: Getting to Know Her
The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings 2002
2002 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Another busy year for the RNLI saw crews answer 6,882 calls and rescue 6,918 people.
Education and safety work is starting to show results and successful trial schemes...
Category: Meetings
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1893
WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles