LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henrietta (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Letters
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...
Category: Services
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
ROSSLARE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 14th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W., a vessel was seen making for Wexford Harbour with ensign flying half-mast high. At the entrance of the harbour the vessel missed stays, and her only remaining...
Category: Services
Last Year the Braunton and District Branch of the RNLI In North Devon Organised a Number of Efforts the First Being a Raffle Involving a Model Tug Made By An Appledor
Last year the Braunton and district branch of the R.N.L.I, in North Devon organised a number of efforts, the first being a raffle involving a model tug made by an Appledore man. It raised during the summer over £60. Picture shows Mr. A.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: RNLI Ream Members With Compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.
Right: RNLI ream members with compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From a Boy of Eight
THE following letter has come from a boy, eight years old, living in Derby- shire, with a postal order for eight shillings :— " DEAR SIR,—I had a sale and got 8s.
I love the sea.
" Yours truly,...
Category: Donations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth February, 1937.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir HENRY F.
OLIVER in the chair.
Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to Her Majesty the Queen for her...
Category: Committee
Endeavour and Eliza Bell
ABEBSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The Mabel Louisa Life-boat was launched, at 2.30 A.M.
on the 29th of April, with much difficulty, the night being very dark, the tide far out, and a very heavy sea breaking on the shore. She proceeded...