LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Tuesday, 22nd August, 1933.
Paid £20,466 10s. lid. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
Category: Services
Johan Collett
THIRD GOLD MEDAL AWARDED SINCE END OF WAR ON the 5th/6th February, 1963, the St. Peter Port life-boat rescued nine people from the Norwegian motor vessel JoJwn Collett. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 450, among...
A beautiful morning
This view of the Cornish sunrise was taken from Penlee’s Severn class lifeboat Ivan Ellen on 12 October 2008. The crew were returning to shore with a 15m fishing vessel in tow. The Sowenna had suffered steering failure 5 miles south of her...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1963 The disaster at Seaham Harbour in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
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Category: Articles
Books
• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
Category: Articles
Leven
The Robert William Life- boat went out in a heavy N.W. gale on the 20th October, and rescued the crew of the sloop Leven, of Euncorn, totally lost off the port. The sea was breaking heavily over the wreck when the Life-boat reached her..<...
Fishing Cobles (1)
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing cobles were out on the 8th February, a strong breeze from the E.N.E. sprung up, the sea became very rough and the weather being thick it was feared that some casualty might happen. The Life-boat...
A Motor Vessel
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—13th April.
A motor vessel had collided with the beacon on Platte Rock, but must have gone on her way, as she could not be found.—Rewards, £9 Is..
Alan Bowers
MARCH 1991 Alan Bowers, administrative officer at Port Erin lifeboat station from 1987 to February 1991 and deputy launching authority from 1971 to 1988. Mr Bowers was also chairman of the station from 1982 to 1987 and awarded a silver badge...
Category: Obituaries