LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canadian's Legacy
IN December, 1928, the Institution received the following letter from Mill- brook, Ontario, Canada :— " In the Toronto, Can., Globe of Dec. 8th, I saw an interesting article about the work of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. I...
Category: Donations
Form of Bequest
P*OR those who wish permanently to benefit what must necessarily be a permanent Work of Humanity.
I give and bequeath to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, London,...
Category: Donations
Disaster to the Rye Life-Boat. The Whole Crew Drowned
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...
Category: Articles
Rayella
MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an onshore gale three...
Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday,...
Category: Services
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
Category: Articles
We Ask the Questions
What is involved in running a successful RNLI branch and how does it work? Lifeboat speaks to two branch officials from very different corners of the Institution - John Dennison, chairman of Uckfield and Heathfield branch in Sussex, and...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1896
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of March, 1896, Captain His Royal Highness The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., KG-., in the Chair...
Category: Annual Reports
The Screw Flat Victoria
The screw flat Victoria, of Liverpool, bound from Pen- maenmawr to Birkenhead with a cargo of macadam, became unmanageable in the Rock Channel on the 12th March, in consequence of a mishap to the steering gear and the bursting of the...
Cruiser and Crete Avon (1)
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...