LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...
Category: Awards
The Busiest Winter for Twenty Years. Medals Won By English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-Boatmen
Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
Category: Medals
Andrada
BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Lifeboat Jones Ctibb put off at 8.15, and on...
Contents
In this issue News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 10 Including Bronze Medal and Vellum services Blackpool Illuminated 16 Jon Jones looks at the RNLI's latest Visitor Centre and the new lifeboat...
Category: Contents
The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
The Most Hon. the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, P.C., K.T., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., who died on 7th March,1934, at the age of eighty-six, had been a vice-president of the Institution for fourteen years and was patron of the Aberdeen branch....
Category: Obituaries
Spirit of Lowestoft Lowestott's New Tyne Class Waits for Her Official Name With Gorleston's Waveney and Southwold's Atlantic 21 In the Background
Spirit of Lowestoft Lowestott's New Tyne Class Waits For Her Official Name With Gorleston's Waveney and Southwold's Atlantic 21 In The Background. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bathing Accidents and Safety Bathing Dresses
WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.
It might...
Category: Articles
Overheard on a Bus
THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
A member of the Institution's staff was recently...
Category: Articles
Wreck of Le Vieux Tigre at Beast Point
This steam trawler went ashore on 27th March, 1935, in a fog, and her crew of eighteen were rescued by the motor life-boat at The Lizard. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Kinghorn April 5 1986:
Kinghorn, April 5, 1986: Dr R. M. L. Weir (1), honorary secretary and Mr Steve West, representing the Co-op in Scotland, shake hands in front of the station's new 17ft 6in in C class inflatable lifeboat on the day of her official... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs