LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (7)
AUGUST
Launches 37. Lives rescued 13.
AUG. 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
Three men, visitors to Moelfre, who were out in a rowing boat,...
Category: Services
To Readers of the Life-Boat
THE editor of The Life-boat will always be glad to receive from its readers anything which they think it would be of interest to publish concerning the present or the past of the life-boat service..
Category: Articles
San Calisto and the Minesweeper Hugh Walpole
DEC. 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT. The motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 11.50 A.M., after a terrific explosion had been seen at sea.A fresh, westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. About two miles...
Whitby: After Naming the White Rose of Yorkshire the Duchess of Kent Puts to Sea and Coxswain Robert Allen By Her Side (Below) Takes a Trick at the Wheel (Left) The
Whitby: After naming The White Rose of Yorkshire, the Duchess of Kent puts to sea and. Coxswain Robert Allen by her side, (below), takes a trick at the wheel. (Left) The White Rose of Yorkshire returns to harbour in company with Whitby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Schooner Pfeil, of Blankanesse
About 8 A.M., on the 20th March, during a strong gale from the eastward, a schooner was seen to run on .the Newcome Sands. The sea at once broke over her, and the crew hoisted her ensign in the rigging as a signal of dis- tress. The...
Valerie and the House-Boat Miranda
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd of July, 1957, the honorary secretary and coxswain saw the fishing boat Valerie in difficulties off Skegness. The Valerie was towing the house-boat Miranda. The life- boat The Cuttle...
When Dr Donald Coggan Archbishop of Canterbury and His Wife Paid An Informal Visit to Whitstable Ilb Station on July 27 They Went Out In the Atlantic 21 and His Gr
When Dr Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife paid an informal visit to Whitstable ILB station on July 27, they went out in the Atlantic 21 and His Grace took the wheel.
Since the founding of the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST [OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1908) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal life-saving.
Category: Awards
Gary Stanbury Pictured at the Helm Amongst the Sandbanks
From left: Crew Member Andrew Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Member Martin Davis Reproduced courtesy of the North Devon journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago
Gold Medallion Awarded for a Service on the Northumbrian Coast.
" Newton-by-the-Sea, " Tuesday, 2nd December, 1828.
" SIR,—It is with the deepest regret I have to communicate to you the...
Category: Correspondence