LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ROSSLARE HARBOUR, co. WEXFORD.— During a moderate E.S.E. gale on the 1st January signals of distress were observed at 9.30 A.M. on a schooner lying at anchor in Rosslare Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Tom and Jennie were assembled, and in a...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen
President—His Grace the DUKE OF NOBTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L, Chairman—EDWARD BIRKBECK, ESQ.. il.P.,...
Category: Advertisement
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1908-1909
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Category: Charts
The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
Category: Articles
Key-Side Concert
Peter Skellern (inset) at the keys of a grand piano aboard a car ferry moored off Polruan quay for an evening concert in aid of the RNLI.
(Photos courtesy Devon and Cornwall Press Agency (inset) and A. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Account of the Growth of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution's Fleet Since the Re-Organization of the Society In 1850. III. (1886-1896)
IN the February 1896 number of the Life-boat Journal it will be remembered that the account of the growth of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION'S fleet of Life-boats was brought up to 1885, the fleet then consisting of 284 boats....
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats During the Storms of November and December, 1867
The following is a list of the services of the boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION during the recent heavy gales:— - ' NO. of Lives saved.
Nov. 16-17,1867.—The Manky Wood life-boat at Poole rescued the crew of...
Category: Services
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853
IN the Life-boat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one reason for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks, on the coasts of the United Kingdom, which we had previously inserted, that a Wreck Register was being compiled at the Admiralty...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 28th January, 1921.
Sir GODFREY BABING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— COVENT GARDEN LIFE-BOAT £• *• d.
FUND (per Mr. B....
Category: Committee
Don, of Jersey
On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...