LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...
Category: Articles
Going Going Gone a Bottle Full of Coins
Going, going, gone. A bottle full of coins and notes for the lifeboats comes under the hammer at the Lord Burleigh, Victoria, London.
Landlord Fred Bright (r.) is a keen supporter of the RNLI who always has a giant bottle... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sponsored Swim Undertaken By Pupils of Winton Junior School Bournemouth In April Raised £432 Anthony Oliver Dos (South) Demonstrates a Line Throwing Apparatus to Some of the Children
A sponsored swim undertaken by pupils of Winton Junior School, Bournemouth in April raised £432.
Anthony Oliver, DOS (South) demonstrates a line throwing apparatus to some of the children at the school, while Mary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Three men from Ramsey lifeboat station have laid claim to being the first Manxmen to climb the rigging of an 1863-built full-rigged sailing ship since the Ramsey-built vessel last left the island some 100 years ago... And what were they...
Category: Articles
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months September, October and November, 1970
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Barmouth, Merionethshire Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow,...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shorehelpers
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
Gallant Scottish Fishermen. The Rescue of Three Bathers at Port William
ON the afternoon of 15th September, 1935, two men and a girl went bathing in the bay at Port William, Wigtown- shire, in a very heavy surf. They kept in the broken water close inshore, but they were swept off their feet by a much larger wave...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago. Case of the "Venus" Steam Packet
" AT 9 P.M. on the 18th of March, 1828, the boat belonging to the Venus Steam Packet, of Glasgow, William Brown, Commander, landed at Glynn, in the County of Wexford, with nine persons on board, including himself and one female ; and...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months June July and August 1972
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Ballycotton, Co. Cork Baltimore, Co. Cork Barmouth, Merionethshire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...
Category: Services
Summary of the Year's Work
(Including those in which no service was rendered.
Launches before the outbreak of war on 3rd September - - - 266
Launches after the outbreak of war ...
Category: Annual Reports