LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Self-Righting Life-Boat
THE award of the prize of £600 and a gold medal made by her Majesty's Commis- sioners of the INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION for the " best full-sized Life-Boat, fully equipped,...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS WORK.
The Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The...
Category: Services
The Hurricane at Calcutta
DrrAJis of the late disastrous hurricane at Colj cutta show that the destruction of property was even greater than at first supposed, although, happily, fhe loss of life appears to have i e , j not so great as at first reported. Letters from...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—On the night of the 20th January the s.s. City of Lahore, belonging to Liverpool, stranded on Kearney Point. The Life-boat John was launched and proceeded to the steamer. The captain requested the boat to stand by, which...
Category: Services
(Below) Hunstanton: the Scene at Old Hunstanton During the Naming of the Atlantic 21 Spirit of America
(Below) Hunstanton: The scene at Old Hunstanton during the naming of the Atlantic 21 Spirit of America. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Fulham II
FEBRUARY 19TH - TYNEMOUTH , NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat station received a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that a vessel had been mined east of the North Pier, and the motor life-boat John Pyemont was launched...
Direct Talking
The RNLI's Director, Brian Miles, looks back at 1997 and at the Institution's plans for 1998 Although one of our principle challenges must be for the RNLI to be administered in a modern, businesslike and efficient way we should never...
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Ceremonies
- Tyne class Mary The little town of Portpatrick, situated on the south western edge of Scotland, provided a picturesque setting for the naming ceremony of its new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat Mary Irene Millar on Friday, 19 May...
Category: Inaugurations
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...