LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...
Category: Annual Reports
On a Lee Shore
off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...
Category: Drawings
Gladonia
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
Gloire a Marie II
Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale force 9 to storm force...
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
The Fishing Trawler Fairway
Trawler broken down A FISHING TRAWLER, Fairway, broken down and drifting towards shore about eight miles south of Lyme Regis was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0032 on Saturday December 2, 1978. The...
A Bathtub
THREE MEN who had set out to cross the Inner Wash from the River Nene to Hunstanton in a bathtub on Monday September 13, 1982, were reported overdue at 2115; the tub was lashed to inner tubes and an inflatable dinghy and powered by an...
Presentation at Westminster Hospital
IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its Gold Brooch to Miss H. Denham, who for many years has been in the Incurable Ward at Westminster Hospital; and during the past seven years has collected there for the Life-boat Service nearly...
Category: Awards
Nor Nor
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—During a strong W.S.W. gale, with a heavy sea, on the afternoon of the 9th January, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Nor Nor, belonging to St.
Mary's, was about two hundred...
Coxswain Thomas Rees, of Angle
Coxswain Thomas Rees, who died at the age of seventy-eight, was coxswain of the Angle life-boat for fifteen years, from 1906 until 1920, when he retired on account of old age. His most notable service was performed as a member of the crew in...
Category: Obituaries