LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rowing Boats
Thames race disaster avertedThe annual Veterans' Head of the River Race ended in chaos on Sunday, 21 March after being hit by gale-force winds and strong tides.
More than 140 boats were participating, with nine crew in...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1870: THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
A Rowing Boat (1)
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...
Annual Report. 1903
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Belgian Yacht Kotique
Three days later Dover coastguard reported to Hastings station honorary secretary at 1030 on Monday July 16, that the Belgian yacht, Kotique, had engine trouble and needed a lifeboat.
As the station's 37ft Oakley class...
Annual Meeting
THE hundred and tenth annual meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 p.m. on Friday, 20th April.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., President of the Institution, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Oceanic
Hartlepool, Durham, and Redcar, Yorkshire. — While bound from the River Tees to Blyth the motor vessel Oceanic, of Newport, Isle of Wight, damaged her steering gear and began to drift. At 1.45 in the morning of the 7th of July, when...
Roach
Margate, Kent. — At 8.20 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1957, the coastguard reported that a sail- ing yacht appeared to be ashore at Birchington about four and a half miles west of the look-out. Heavy rain squalls obscured the...
The Oil Rig Standby Vessel Seaborne Intrepid
Lifeboat called to mystery grounding Lerwick - Scotland North Division Lerwick's Arun class Soldian is pictured preparing to come alongside the oil rig standby vessel Seaborne Intrepid following a mysterious grounding on 6 July 1987.<...
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...