LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heckler of Cullen
The boat was also out doing goodwork on the 25th of the same month.
At midnight, lighted torches having been observed from some vessel in the bay during a fearful gale from N.N.W., with snow showers, the...
The S.S. Afon Gwili
APRIL 9TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
The police reported at 2.30 A.M.
that rockets had been seen north of Southport Pier, and the motor life-boat Dunleary put out at 3.10 A.M. A moderate...
New Ways of Making Money
After the maiden trip of the latest addition to Lowestoft's trawler fleet, Silverfish, owned by the Colne Fishing Co. Ltd., the owners gave the first kit of fish, one of selected plaice, to be auctioned for the Institution's...
Category: Donations
Gonslave, of Nantes
On the 8th March, 1859, the French brigantine Gonscdve, of Nantes, got embayed off Padstow, and, on making for the harbour, was caught by the eddy winds at the entrance, and driven by the tide and heavy sea on to the Doombar Sand, when her...
Two of the Southwold Ilb Team Receiving Theirawards from the Duke of Kent President of the RNLI at the Annual Meeting In London In May
Two of the Southwold ILB team receiving theirawards from the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., at the annual meeting in London in May. Top: Mr. Patrick Pile and (below) Mr. Martin Helmer.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) the Last of the Rnli's Pulling Lifeboats
(Above) The last of the RNLI's pulling lifeboats, Robert and Ellen Robson, goes afloat again at Whitby: During lifeboat day demonstrations the combined ages of her 12-man crew came to 742 years.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE ninetieth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Wednesday, March 18th, 1914, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon. the Earl of Selborne, K.G., presided, and amongst those present...
Category: Meetings
The Spittal Private Salvage Boat Margaret Dadds
About 7 A.M. on the 4th January, a fog-horn was heard to the southward by the fishermen and they at once assem- bled to man the Life-boat. Confirmation by the Coastguard was received that a steamer was in distress and the Life-boat Matthew...
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1859
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Category: Services
Lecture on Life-Boats
4. Richardson's Tubular Life-boat.—The next coast life-boat to be described is "the tubular." By the model of this boat, which is on the table, it will be seen that it is altogether different in principle to any other boat;...
Category: Articles