LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (29)
JULY 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but only traces of oil could be found- Rewards, £9 1s..
John
Just after day- break on the 12th November a schooner- rigged vessel was observed coming in from the eastward, and as a strong S.E.
by E. wind was blowing a watch was kept on her. From time to time she was lost sight of in...
Cygnet, of Workington
On the after- noon of the 4th January, a small schooner, called the Cygnet, of Workington, with a j cargo of slates, was making this harbour j when she struck on the North Bank, and j afterwards drifted behind the North Pier. | It was...
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Jan. 1, 1857. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collection
WE publish on page 17 a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th September, 1929.
The total sum raised by these twenty Branches was...
Category: Branches
Ole Knude
MARCH 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 9.20 in the morning the coastguard reported that a small Danish fishing boat was hove to near Whitby Rock Buoy, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9.35. A...
Poole: Coxswain Frank Ide at the Wheel of Poole's New 33Ft Brede Inner Wheel
Poole: Coxswain Frank Ide at the wheel of Poole's new 33ft Brede, Inner Wheel. The autumn journal reported services by Exmouth's new Brede while on trials and on passage to station. While on a familiarisation run last September, even... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sealife
DIVE IN FOR A SPLASHING GREAT TIME RNLI supporters are usually too concerned with events on the sea's surface to wonder about whotjfalit be happening down below the waves.
Exploring the magical world fTenwnh the surface...
Category: Advertisement
People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Jam on the Bread! Two stars from the popular BBC TV series 'Bread' drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 50th national lottery, which took place on 31 July 1990.
Nellie Boswell and...
Category: Articles