LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dolphin
TRAWLER BROKE DOWN Dungeness, Kent. At 9.55 p.m. on 2ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small trawler had broken down three miles north-east of Dungeness. There was a light southwesterly breeze with a moderate...
The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago. Case of the "Venus" Steam Packet
" AT 9 P.M. on the 18th of March, 1828, the boat belonging to the Venus Steam Packet, of Glasgow, William Brown, Commander, landed at Glynn, in the County of Wexford, with nine persons on board, including himself and one female ; and...
Category: Articles
Services by Shore-Boats (4)
FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At about 8 P.M. on the 19th April, 1939, a small yawl with a party of five boys on board got into difficulties and could not make Fraserburgh Harbour. The sea was choppy with a squally increasing S.S.W. breeze....
Category: Services
The Duke of Kent's Presidential Address
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 145 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 17 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 15th June, 1939 66,237 The Duke of Kent's Presidential Address A Record Year.<...
Category: Meetings
The Life-Boat Service In Ireland
SINCE 1924 Mr. Timothy Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, has been the Patron of the Irish Free State District of the Institution, and when he accepted the Patronship he issued an earnest appeal to the people of the Free...
Category: Articles
Designed to Be As Tough As It Takes!
Designed To Be As Tough As It Takes!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 23rd August, 1934.
Paid £18,054 10s. 5d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, includ- ing rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Isa Simpson and Sunbeam
JAN. 19TH -. GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
At about 3.30 P.M. a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for...