LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: 'Gallant Rescue By Ladies'
Romantic fiction often portrays Victorian women as weak, passive creatures, but the list of RNLI Gallantry Medal awardees shows another side. Nineteen women have been awarded Medals for Gallantry in the RNLi's history.
Category: Articles
A Small Boat
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and HoIyhead, Angelsey.—22nd March.
Searched without success for a small boat which was adrift and eventually made land in Co. Down after thirty-five hours at sea.—Rewards, Porthdinllaen,...
Northward
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH SEPTEMBER 2 4TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just after two in the morning the coastguard told the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore on the Cairnbulg Briggs, a reef of rocks about two miles away...
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
Category: Services
Anchor-Shot and Grapnel-Shot
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
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
How a Life-Boat Is Launched
[The following article appeared in the Lytham St. Annes Express on the 12th of March. It is reproduced by kind permission of the editor.] COULD you do what Lytham life-boat- men do when they are called out on an emergency? Could you...
Category: Articles
"Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast."
IN the review of Major Ernest Cooper's book Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was mentioned that the book could be bought from the Institution, price 3s. 6d. post...
Category: Advertisement
Mark Coleman (Left) of E. P. Barrus Presents RNLI Director Brian Miles
Mark Coleman (left) of E. P. Barrus presents RNLI Director Brian Miles with one of three detailed commemorative replica model of Lawnflite, the D class inshore lifeboat donated by Barrus to the RNLI during the London Boat Show 1996.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cape Sable
On the 25th June, the steam trawler Cape Sable, of Hull, ran aground in a very dangerous place near Hoy Head, in a dense fog.
She was homeward bound from, the fishing grounds at the Faroes, and carried a crew of twelve. A...