LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ad Infinitum:
Ad infinitum: there is no such thing as being put out to grass for many lifeboats leaving the RNLI's service. This photograph was taken in Montevideo in Uruguay last June on the day ADES II, formerly Arbroath's The Duke of Montrose,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1938
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 31st May. The amount raised was £6,397, an increase of £1,074 on 1937.
Presentation 'by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.,...
Category: Branches
Coming to our AGM and annual awards?
The RNLI AGM and annual presentation of awards will take place at The Barbican, London on 22 May 2014. Details of the AGM will be mailed to Governors of the RNLI, and more details of the AGM and the afternoon awards will feature in the next...
Category: Articles
Agna
On the 8th February, 1865, the Mary Hartley life-boat again went off, and ren- dered important services to the Norwegian schooner Anga, which was in a perilous position during a strong easterly wind, with signals of distress flying, between...
Andri
Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the evening of the 25th January the steam trawler Andri, of Eskifjordur, Iceland, carrying a crew of twenty-five, and bound with fish for Grimsby, ran ashore at Kelder Steel, Kettleness. A moderate S.E....
Harriet and Venus
At about 7.35 P.M. on the 28th No- vember, signals from the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships were seen, and the Life-boat and steam-tug proceeded through the Cudd Channel to the North Sand Head. They saw a flare from a vessel on the sand,...
Contessa and Lionheart
Two yachts aground BRADWELL COASTGUARD MOBILE was in the vicinity of Stansgate on the afternoon of Friday, May 20, keeping watch over a number of yachts off Osea Island, when, at 1723, a yacht was seen to be heading for the sand spit at the...
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water
THE management of a boat in the dangerous circumstances of a heavy sea and broken water, is altogether so practical a thing, that it may be thought no rules or instructions can be given which would be of much value to those called on to put...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 119. Lives rescued 86.
April Meeting.
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on Aran Island...
Category: Services
Hornchurch and Rainham Branch's
A one-sided fight at Hornchurch. A member of the Metropolitan Police Force womens' self defence team makes light work of a would-be attacker during a demonstration at Hornchurch and Rainham branch's silver jubilee... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs