LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st August, 1936.
PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Out In A Flash
RescUe OUT In A FLASH When three children were suddenly torn out of their depth by a rip current at a Devon beach, they were in danger of being thrown onto rocks – or worse Rip currents are the main surf hazard for beach goers – they can...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats from Many Member Countries of the International Lifeboat Federation Alongside During the 1991 Conference In Oslo.
Lifeboats from many member countries of the International Lifeboat Federation alongside during the 1991 conference in Oslo. The RNLI's Mersey class is clearly visible, as are several Colin Archer-type sailing lifeboats long since retired... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
View our AGM
AGM (IN POOLE, DUBLIN, LONDON OR PERTH) Would you like to come along to the RNLI Annual General Meeting? This year, as reported in previous editions of the magazine, it’s in a new venue. Our AGM has been held at the Barbican in London for...
Category: Articles
The "Charterhouse" Life-Boat
IN 1909, one of the first of the Insti- tution's Motor Life-boats was stationed at Fishguard. She was a 40-feet Self- righting Life-boat with a 24 h.p. auxiliary engine, giving her a speed of seven knots.
There were...
Category: Inaugurations
A Seafire Aircraft
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
Ocean Sprit
The pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the 25th November, as the life-boat shore signal- man had heard distress signals appar- ently coming from a vessel on the north end of the Barber Sands. Nothing...
Four Dinghies
FOUR DINGHIES CAPSIZE St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 3.55 p.m.
on Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Eyemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Abbs that two sailing dinghies had capsized off Eyemouth.
Yla Section
SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...
Category: Articles
Bertolemeo Cerruti, of Genoa
On the 27th October, another severe 1 gale sprang up from the N.N.E., and the ! barque Bertolemeo Cerruti, of Genoa, which ! was riding at anchor, was observed to I drift rapidly on shore, the sea soon ; making a complete breach over her....