LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Achilles, of Glasgow
About ten o'clock on the night of the 21st October, during foul weather and in a thick fog, analarm was given that a vessel was in dis- tress off Polurrian Cove, about a mile and a half from the life-boat station. The Daniel J. Draper...
Donaghadee: One of the Guardians of the Northern Approaches By Joan Davies
AUGUST 1910: DONAGHADEE station was established, its first boat being one of the earliest motor lifeboats in the Institution's fleet, a 43' Watson with a 40 hp engine capable of nearly 7 knots.
August 1975: it was...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Kyle Castle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Forniby coastguard that the S.S. Kyle Castle, of Liverpool, with a crew of twelve, had a heavy list about twenty miles...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
Category: Services
Veritas,of Antwerp
On the 29th January the brig Veritos, of Antwerp, was observed with .signals of dis- tress flying, near the Manacles Rocks, on the Cornish Coast, during a whole gale from W.N.W. The life-boat Western Commer- cial Traveller at once put off,...
An Artist's Memories of the Life-Boat Service. From the Bay of Naples to Solway Firth
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1937 - 65,320 An Artist's Memories of the Life-boat Service From...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverte,—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. "Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
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
Sir William Milligan, M.D., LL.D., J.P., of Manchester
BY the death of Sir William Milligan, on 19th December, 1929, at the age of 65, the Manchester, Salford and District Branch has lost its Chairman, the Insti- tution one of its Vice-Presidents, and the whole Life-boat Service one of its most...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Launches 110. Lives rescued 102.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November,...
Category: Services