LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (3)
JANUARY 21ST. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A ship had been re-ported in distress to the south-east of Ardmore Point, Islay, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the vessel was not in immediate danger and did not need the help...
Income and Expenditure.—1st April, 1850, to 31st of March, 1851
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Category: Accounts
Shoreline
SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...
Category: Articles
Admiral Stuart Nicholson, of Bude
BY the death of Admiral Stuart Nicholson, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., on 10th September, at the age of seventy, the Institution has lost one of its most active and successful honorary secre- taries. At the end of 1920 he retired from the Navy after...
Category: Obituaries
Where Do We Go from Here?
RNLI lifeboats have a nominal working life of some 20 years, so when the Institution's current slipway-launched lifeboats reach the end of their twodecades of work in 2003 there will be an obvious need to replace them - but what should...
Category: Articles
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Hutnber, Yorkshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 29th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had requested assistance in landing a sick man. The lifeboat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.50...
Inaugural Ceremony of the "Duke of Connaught" at Peterhead. The Duke of Atholl Speaking, With the Marquess of Aberdeen on His Left
Inaugural Ceremony of the "Duke of Connaught" at Peterhead The Duke of Atholl Speaking With The Marquess of Aberdeen On His Left. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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BODY FOUND AFTER SEARCH WITH HELICOPTER Weymouth, Dorset. At 12.55 on the afternoon of the 10th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and a girl were stranded on some rocks below the cliffs at Lulworth Cove....
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 295 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...
Category: Articles