LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Vessel (1)
Faster... and further The abilities of the new generation of fast lifeboats were highlighted on the very day that this page of The Lifeboat went to press - with Eyemouth's Trent Barclaycard Crusader going to the aid of a stricken fishing...
All hands on deck!
You don’t have to get wet to help save lives at sea.
We need more volunteers to help us raise funds, raise awareness and reduce tragedies. If you can give some time to the RNLI, please get in touch. It doesn’t...
Category: Articles
Double Toil and Trouble
Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour
Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...
Category: Articles
The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
Category: Articles
An Aqua-Glider
At 4.55 p.m. on 18th June, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a person had been waving a yellow coat from a white boat which appeared to be in need of assistance. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, '* L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4fh January, 1872. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Star, of Colchester
At 4.30 A.M. on the 5th December the barge Star, of Colchester, bound from Hull to Poole, was driven ashore at Winthorpe Gap, on the Lincoln- shire coast, during a fresh gale at E., with snow falling heavily. The Life-boat Henry Ingram, was...
Silver Quest (2)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 24th of April, 1952, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Com- mittee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings