LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emanuel Boucher, of Whitby
On the morning of the 6th January, during a terri- fic gale of wind from the S.E., the Ponte- fract and Goole life-boat went off through a very heavy sea, in reply to signals of dis- tress, and rescued the crew of 6 men from the brig Emanuel...
The New Hatch-Boat, Specially Built for the Institution, Showing Her Paces Off Littlehampton
The new Hatch-boat, specially built for the Institution, showing her paces off Littlehampton.
She can be used as a boarding boat to take life-boat crews from the shore to life-boats which remain afloat, and she can also be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
Buy a Life-boat Calendar! THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. St Patrick
5th August.
S.S. St. Patrick struck a rock. Help given by another steamer.—Rewards, £9 Is..
The Lebanese Vessel Kapitan Vanghelis
IN SHALLOW WATER At 11.11 p.m. on the same day the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground in a moderate sea three miles off North Foreland. It was one hour after low water and there was a moderate westerly breeze....
The Southern African Branch.
The Southern African branch has completed its gift of £11,000 to provide a motor life-boat to be named "Field-Marshal and Mrs. Smuts"i and has sent £4,000 towards another £11,000 to provide a second life-boat,...
Category: Articles
The English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1870
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, F,C,in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current year:—(vide last...
Category: Meetings
Magna, of Helsingborg
OCTOBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.25 in the morning the Deal coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a vessel ashore on the Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles...
The S.S. King Ja Ja
ORME'S HEAD.—On the 24th December, at about noon, the s.s. King Ja Ja, of Carnarvon, exhibited signals of distress in Llandudno Bay. The Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched, and on arriving at the vessel it was found that her...