LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
As many supporters of the life-boat service will be aware, the R.N.L.I. had a serious deficit in 1967. Expenditure amounted to over £1,921,000 and receipts to just over £1,500,000. This has left a gap of more than £410,000....
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...
Category: Meetings
Yes I'D Do It All Again By Rosemarie Ide
IT WAS ONE of those glorious days. A day to be taken out and inspected and admired now and then in years to come.
It would make one feel warm and good all over again. A glad-to-be-alive day.
The sun was...
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Regnault
MARCH 17TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. The steam trawler Regnault, of Hull with a crew of twelve and laden with fish, stranded at the entrance to Stornoway Harbour. Repeated attempts to refloat her were unsuccessful. On the morning of the...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1870
THE Board of Trade has recently published the Wreck Register of the United Kingdom for the past year. As usual, it is a most interesting document, convey- ing much useful information on a subject of national importance.
On...
Category: Annual Reports
List of Launches
oat launches Aberdeen ALB: Mar 17. Apr 17 and May 17 ILB: Mar 17. Apr .S.Apr 16.
May 17 and May 18 Aherdovey ILB: Mar 22 (2) Aberystwyth ILB: Mar 16. Mar IX. Apr 21, Apr 22 and Apr 23 •-..mil ! • l . i i iJ ALB: Mar 30 and...
Category: Services
Three Fine Services By the Humber Life-Boat. 102 Lives Rescued In Five Weeks
IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
Category: Services
Gloire a Marie II
Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale force 9 to storm force...
Lifeboats In Action
One man's courageA young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...
Category: Services
Lighthouse Telegraphs and Fog-Signals
THE Schiller disaster served to turn public attention to the question of Fog-signals and Alarms; and some interest was felt in the evidence taken before the BOARD or TRADE Court of Inquiry, apart from that naturally induced by the details of...
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