LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 1.15 in the afternoon the Holyhead coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed between the breakwater and the Skerries. A strong northwest wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea,...
A lifesaving foundation
The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat by 2019. But the links in our supply chain are increasing and the availability of lifeboat building expertise is unpredictable. Our...
Category: Articles
The Encroachment of the Sea
IT is only to be expected that the sub- ject of the erosion of the coast, which in other words means the encroachment of the sea, should be one of considerable interest to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION. The nature of Life- boat...
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1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.
Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...
Category: Medals
New Ways of Raising Money
The Chairman of the Failsworth, Lancashire, Urban District Council, Mr. George Edge, has adopted the lifeboat service as his particular charity during his year of office and is trying to persuade a thousand organisations or individuals each...
Category: Donations
Gallant and Successful Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew By a Student
WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr....
Category: Articles
Letters
Understatement of great magnitude We are grateful to L. J. Robertson who, in his letter in the autumn journal, puts so succinctly our own feelings towards the manner of the rescue reports: '. . . understatement of great magnitude . . ....
Category: Correspondence
Classified Advertisements
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With illustration: £12 per single column...
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