LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Salmon Cobles
At 3.45 P.M. on the 8th April information was received that two salmon cobles were in great danger owing to the wind having shifted from W. to N., and increased to a hurricane, causing the sea to break right over them. The No. 1 Life-boat,...
Etoile Polaire
At about 9.40 A.M. on llth February, during a S. by W. gale with a heavy sea, a barque was observed about three miles S.S.E. of Newlyn pierhead, running dead before the wind and right in on the land. As it was obvious that unless the master...
Emanuele Accame
DROGHEDA.—The barque Emanuele Accame, of Genoa, bound from Bremerhaven for Swansea, in ballast, was riding at anchor in a dangerous position, about two miles N. of the Boyne bar, having lost three her four masts, on the 13th...
Web of support
Silverware, a blue tick and tens of thousands of fans: all signs that supporters like you are enjoying keeping in touch with the RNLI using the internet.
The RNLI's website, relaunched in Summer 2012, recently won Best...
Category: Articles
(Left) the One-Twelfth Scale Model of Mumbles Lifeboat and Boathouse
(left) The one-twelfth scale model of Mumbles lifeboat and boathouse during the filming of 'Dangerous Coast'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ingola
TORBAY, SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON.-—At 11.25 A.M., on the 6th January, the Motor Life-boat George Shee left Brixham in a whole S.S.W.
gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, as the s.s. Ingola, of Glasgow, had sent out an...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
Dare
CAISTER, NORFOLK.-—At 2.30 A.M. on the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the .8. to S.W., a steam vessel was seen to get on the North Barber Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were called together, and the No. 1 Life-boat...
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
or THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
(IV fifura refer to the numbm of the Life-boati detailed on paget 616 627.) A Friend, per Pembroke Stevens, E«q., K.C , 26 i.
A Ljady....
Category: Donations
Naming Ceremonies of Eight Motor Life-Boats
EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...
Category: Inaugurations