LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lizzie
On the I night of the 13th April a strong N.
I gale suddenly sprang up, and about i 11.30 P.M. one of the cobles returning j from the lobster pots reported that the ' weather was very bad at sea, and not fit ...
Barometers for Life-Boat Stations
THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is about to place Barometers, wherever found practicable, at each of its life-boat stations round the coasts, in order that the seafaring population of the neighbourhood may be warned in time of a coming...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1884
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1884, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, KG., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Sandsucker Bowstar
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1954, the Nells Point coastguard telephoned that the sandsucker Bow- star, of Cardiff, was burning a flare one and a half miles west of Steep Holme.
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Relief Brede: Champagne Breaks Over the Bow of the 33Ft Brede Relief Lifeboat Named Rnlb Merchant Navy
Relief Brede: Champagne breaks over the bow of the 33ft Brede relief lifeboat named RNLB Merchant Navy to mark the generous support given to the lifeboat service over many years by merchant seamen. The ceremony took place in St Katharine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MARATHON MISSIONS
A naval architect and an accident and emergency doctor from Southampton are just two of the many RNLI supporters who ran the Virgin London Marathon in April.
Nick Burton and Mairi Reynolds, who will marry in July, ran the...
Category: Articles
Just One of the Many Naming Ceremonies for Inshore Lifeboats Held In Wales During September
Just one of the many naming ceremonies for inshore lifeboats held in Wales during September - the D class at Conwy. Miss Joan Bate names the station's new D class Arthur Bate after her brother who provided the legacy which funded the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The "London Journal" Life-Boat
THERE could probably be no better evidence afforded of the national importance of the work in which the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is engaged than the cordial and valuable co-operation afforded to it by the general press of this country;...
Category: Articles
Mary E.
Crew member swims through heavy surf and scales cliff to survivor Simon Chadwick, a member of Bude lifeboat crew, has received a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Institution following his first service call in the station's D...
A Royal Naval Air Service Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 21ST. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. A Royal Naval Air Service aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a small boat from the shore.
- Rewards, £13 13s. (See Easthaven, “Services by Shore-boats...