LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from Capsized Speedboat
THE two members of the crew of the Easmey, Hampshire, inshore rescue boat, Helmsman Robert Faro and Roy Richards, have each been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum for rescuing two people from a speedboat which capsized...
Category: Services
Workington - North Division
Workington's unique davit launch system for the station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in a strictly functional building just outside the Prince of Wales dock - at the root of the pier in the main photo - having been outside in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Three Peaks Race Starts from Barmouth
The annual Three Peaks Race starts from Barmouth and finishes at Fort William, calling at Caernarvon and Ravenglass on the way, where crew members have to disembark and run up Snowdon and Scafell Pike. The race ends with a 13-mile run up Ben... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ystroom
DECEMBER 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. The Dutch motor vessel Ystroom, of Amsterdam, had been attacked and sunk by the enemy, but a later message said that the crew were safe, and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £23...
Two Ex-Coxswains Drowned
ON the 25th of May a fishing coble, the Ricia, from Cloughey, Co. Down, went out lobster-fishing. She had three men on board, Andrew Young, his brother, John Young, and John's son, Andrew Young, junior. They were expected back before...
Category: Services
Moronel
TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...
A Canoe
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
The Central Appeals Committee
THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...
Category: Committee
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
PATRONESS HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN
VICE PATRONESS — HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS...
Category: Advertisement
March 4th, 1824: March 4th, 1924
THE Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, " at a Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others, held at the City of London Tavern, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair." Such is the brief record...
Category: Articles