LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Equity
ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—The schooner Equity, of Boston, bound from Newcastle to London, with firebricks and soda, signalled for assistance at 1 P.M. on the 14th October, during a heavy gale and rough sea, and a beach yawl thereupon went to her...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th April. The Eight Hon. EARL PERCY, P.C., President, in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Congratulations to Irish Mechanic
A special letter of congratulation has been sent to Mechanic William Sliney of Ballycotton and extra monetary awards made to all the members of the Ballycotton crew for an attempted service carried out in exceptionally bad...
Category: Services
A Yacht
Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
An R.A.F. Lockheed Hudson Aeroplane
MARCH 17TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At about 9.50 A.M the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. Lockheed Hudson aeroplane was down in the sea about two miles north of Redcar look-out, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was...
On the Very Hot Sunny Day of June 6 Mrs Irene Carrington Wife of the President of the St.Ives Huntingdonshire Rotary Club Named the New D Class Ilb for Wells Station
On the very hot, sunny day of June 6, Mrs Irene Carrington, wife of the president of the St Ives, Huntingdonshire, Rotary Club, named the new D class ILB for Wells station Spirit of Rotary, pouring champagne over her bows. The St Ives branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
Category: Articles
The Executive Committee of the Rnli Meeting In the Old Committee Room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens London Where the Lifeboat Service Has Had Its Headquarters Since
The Executive Committee of the RNLI meeting in the old committee room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, where the lifeboat service has had its headquarters since the early 1930's. Fairly shortly the RNLI will be controlled from its new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Members of the St.Helier Lifeboat Crew Who Raised £3000 Towards the Cost of the New Lifeboat to Be Placed In Jersey Through a Sponsored Row to Guernsey Pictured H
Members of the St Helier lifeboat crew, who raised £.3,000 towards the cost of the new lifeboat to be placed in Jersey through a sponsored row to Guernsey. Pictured here (extreme left) is Mr A. Alexandra, manager of the St Helier branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rewards for Saving Life from Shipwreck
of the most important features in the original organization of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—independently of the establishment of Life-boats by it—was to encourage laudable efforts by every available means to save life from shipwreck on...
Category: Articles