LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...
Category: Services
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of October and November, 1864
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, are shown in the annexed diagram, including 46 days, ending the 30th of November, daring which period...
Category: Articles
Forecasts of Weather
By VICE-ADMIRAL E. Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
THE Life-Boat Journal having aided practical meteorology, the following memorandum, ' as a general answer to numerous observations and questions, may interest its readers: j and as...
Category: Articles
New Members of the Committee of Management
BRIGADIER N. B. Brading, C.M.G., C.B.E., Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., and the Duke of Atholl have been co- opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Brigadier Brading served as an officer of the East...
Category: Committee
Ten Ten, of Nieuwpoort
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.5 a.m. on 16th August, 1968, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that the yacht Ten Ten was aground on the harbour bar. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 12.18 in a strong westerly...
Out of the Blue:
Out of the blue: the Prime Minister paid a visit to Porlhcawl lifeboat station when she was in South Wales last June. I he crew presented her with a plat/lie and while she was being shown their lf ft I) class inflatable she tried her hand at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Record of 1925
Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1950 - 77,074 The Danger of Rubber Dinghies EVERY year life-boats are called...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the Meridian
THE following stirring account of the wreck of the above-named vessel is abridged from an interesting narrative of the same, which appeared in the ' Morning Chronicle' of the 2nd December last, as recounted by one of the sufferers, a...
Category: Services
The Annual Meetings 2000
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 18 May 2000, once again took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The morning AGM allowed Chairman David Acland, who retires at the end of July, to...
Category: Meetings