LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Antarctic
THE British and Norwegian crews of the whaling ships Southern Em- press and Southern Princess, on their return from their whaling season in the Antarctic, sent the Institution £51 2s. 3d..
Category: Donations
A Yacht (2)
6th June.
A yacht was in distress, but was picked up by a R.A.F. tender.—Rewards, £7 2s. 6d..
A Landing Craft (2)
JANUARY 22ND. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A landing craft had gone aground in Luce Bay, but the life-boat was not needed. - Rewards, £26 2s..
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
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...
Category: Awards
An Airliner (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The new Life-boat placed on this Station by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the cost of which has been defrayed from the legacy left to the Institution by the late Miss CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS of Finsbury Park, was...
Category: Articles
Attempted Rescue By Second Coxswain
Shortly after 4 p.m. on 12th September, 1967, Mr R. W. S. Gould, who is second coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat, was working in his cafe on the beach at Bembridge when his attention was called to a bather in difficulties some 200 yards...
Category: Services
"The Brotherhood of Man:" A Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
DUBIXG the war our life-boat men were condemned by some people because they rescued those, who (in the opinion of certain folk) should have been left to perish. Some of these angry people wrote letters to the papers to ask why the men who...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (5)
About midday on the 12th May the weather began to look boisterous with a growing sea, and shortly before three of the Spittal cobles had sailed for Goswick Bay. The Honorary Secretary having been apprised of this, he directed the Coxswain of...
(Left) the Final Product, the First Severn
(Left) The final product, the first Severn - in prototype form at least. Four hectic years have passed from the first Operational Requirements, through concept, design, testing, modification, development and operational trials .
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Category: Photographs