LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Agnes Cairns
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — Rockets and guns having been fired from the Gunfleet lighthouse, intimating that a vessel was stranded on the sands, on the 9th April, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was launched at 9.45 P.M., and found the...
The United States' Life-Saving Service
IN the Number (115) of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1880, there appeared a brief description of the means provided for the Pre- servation of Life from Shipwreck in the United States of America, not only on their sea coasts but on the...
Category: Articles
Old And New Generation Lifeboats, Boathouses – And Crew
21st century stations The RNLI’s Shoreworks team is continuing to update lifeboat stations around the UK and RoI, thanks to your support.
In Hoylake, Merseyside, a £2M appeal has been launched to raise funds for a new...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 5
IN treating of Mr. Beeching's Life-boat (in the last article on this subject) which ; was sent to Ramsgate, and which proved ; so successful, omission was made of the ' fact that in 1853 she underwent con-J siderable alterations, in...
Category: Articles
Pwllheli Naming Ceremony
THE new Pwllheli life-boat was named Katherine and Virgoe Buckland at Pwllheli on the 20th of August.
Captain R. E. Thomas, chairman of the Pwllheli branch, was in the chair.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, R.N.R...
Category: Inaugurations
Captain O. M. Watts Ltd
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT We hold stocks of all the flares and signals now compulsory for yachts over IS tons.
Also lifebuoys, safety belts, kapok cushions, bells, horns, whistles, fire-extinguishers, first-aid cases and a...
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Next generation
Charlie Clifford from the west Midlands of England is the RNLI’s second-youngest-ever official supporter, having been signed up as a Storm Force member at just 4 hours old.
Charlie’s family has a long history of...
Category: Articles
A French Schooner
7th December. A French schooner ran ashore, but got away unaided. The master expressed his thanks for the launch of the Life-boat.—Rewards, £3 Is. 9d..
A Trawler (1)
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—14th September.
A trawler ran ashore, but her crew were rescued by a motor boat.— Rewards, £8 18s..
Above: Gravesend Lifeboat Crew
Above: Gravesend lifeboat crew went to the help of this motorboat when her inexperienced skipper ran her aground at the foot of a lighthouse Photo: Port of London Authority. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs