LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes and News
1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.
It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...
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Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Elmela (1)
Aground on Goodwins REPORTS OF SHIP'S LIGHTS in the vicinity of East Goodwin Buoy were passed to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2130 on Saturday December 10, 1977. The East Goodwin...
Southern Scott
Fishing boat aground THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Peel lifeboat station was informed by Ramsey Coastguard at 0145 on Saturday March 29 that the motor fishing vessel Southern Scott was aground on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of...
Nick of time
A boat with its own fascinating RNLI history set out on a perfect day last Summer. Little did her crew know it was to be her last voyage …
‘We set off in ideal conditions – you couldn’t have...
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Services of Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4th January, 1877: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—A new sailingboat of the Norfolk type has been despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION to Winterton, to take the place of one stationed there some years since. The new craft was built by Messrs. BEECHING...
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Back In Business—Hunstanton Closed 1931: Re-Opened 1979 By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
AT INTERVALS around our coasts stand solid, stone buildings with arched doorways facing the sea, many now with moss on their tiled roofs, weeds in the gutters and rust on the runners for the massive wooden doors. They are old lifeboathouses,...
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