LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS WORK.
Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...
Category: Articles
Majestic
At 6 P.M. on the 29th November it was reported that a steamer was ashore on the bar at the entrance to Newhaven Harbour. There was a moderate gale blowing and the tide was low; it was realized therefore that the steamer must be in a...
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
Cambridge, I May 1852.
SIR,—In the narrative of the lamentable wreck of the New Commercial at the Bris- sons, Cornwall, given in the April number of the Life-Boat Journal, it is stated by mis- take that I am the " only...
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D Class
Length 4.9m (16ft) Beam 2m (6ft 7in) Displacement Approx 745lb Speed 20 knots Endurance 3 hours at max. - View image in PDF
speed Crew 2 or 3 Construction Nylon coated with hypalon. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Olga
Trial of patience A MESSAGE from the 1,100-ton coastal tanker Olga, on passage from Liverpool to Bergen, stating she was aground on Bhride Island and that the crew of 10 aboard required assistance, was intercepted by Portpatrick radio...
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
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September
Launches 31 Lives rescued 13 SEPTEMBER 1ST. -
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of...
Category: Services
The Search for Edward May
AT 4.45 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1954, Edward May, a 44- year-old steel worker from Scunthorpe, waded into the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
He planned to swim to Dover unes- corted and thereby become the first man to...
Category: Services
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
The Lost Man: the Damaged Boat.
The man who was lost was Benjamin Clark, the bowman and signalman.
He had served in the life-boat for 25 years, and his father and brother had each been coxswain. His widow has been pensioned by the Institution as if her...
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