LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Local Shrimping Boat Jenny
At about 11.30 A.M. on the 15th January the Coxswain was informed by fisher- men, who had just returned, that the local shrimping boat Jenny, with only one man on board, was flying a distress signal. In a moderate S. to S.W. gale, with a...
Wreck of H.M.S. "Orpheus."
Ox the 7th of February last took place, on the coast of New Zealand, one of those melancholy but impressive events, happily of rare occurrence, the wreck of a British man-of-war. When we read of the wreck of a merchant-ship, or even, after...
Category: Articles
The Cunard Steamer Brest
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—On the 6th September the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat went out twice and rescued 40 persons from the Cunard steamer Brest, of Glasgow, which, while on a voyage from Havre to Liverpool with a large number of passengers and a...
Dr. Addison, of the Scillies
THE Institution has lost an old and valued friend by the death at the begin- ning of January of Dr. W. B. Addison, M.D., the chairman of the Scilly Islands branch.
For fourteen years, from 1918 to 1932, he was the honorary...
Category: Obituaries
Broken on the Goodwins
The French Steamer Agen (See page 317). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lord Killanin,
April 1999 The Lord Killanin, a Life Vice President of the RNLI. The Lord Killanin joined the Committee of Management in 1959 and was appointed a Vice President in 1972 and a Life Vice President in 1989.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spot the Difference
The above photograph shows Skerries Hfeboat crew member. Mart,n O'Toole wfth Storm Force hero, Stormy Stan at have been a bit of a role model for Stan, has been on the crew since the D class was stat,oned in Skerries in the early... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Winning Touch
.ie RNLI's competition to find photos to help launch its 175th Anniversary Year , at the London Boat Show in January produced some stunning shots. The six winners are reproduced here - the overall winner gets £150 of photographic...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent
The Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the life-boat stations at Cromer and Sheringham on 23rd May, met Coxswain Henry Blogg and Coxswain James Dumble and their crews, and saw the Sheringham life-boat launched.
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