LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...

Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint: double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...

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WHITBY.—The Life-boat John Fielden was launched at 12.30 P.M., on the 12th February, and attended some of the cobles which were in danger while returning to the harbour, a heavy sea having sprang up during the time they were out fishing..<...

Left to right: Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, Mr. Alexander Weir, Mr. John Masson, Mr. J.

Cowper (Aberdeen), Coxswain George Leng, Mr. R. B. Cowling (Flamborough), Coxswajn William Mogridge, Mr. F. C. Sanders (Torbay), Coxswain... - View image in PDF

Last year the former coxswain ol the Plymouth life-boat, Mr. Peter White, left England with his family to take up a government appointment in the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean. His place has been taken by Mr. John Dare, the second...

Coxswain John King, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who won the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry in February, 1968, for the rescue of a woman from the German m.v. Maria F, attended the 'Men of the Year' luncheon at the Savoy...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight: When the 52ft Arun lifeboat Joy and John Wade took Christmas fare to the keepers of The Needles Lighthouse last December, The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London, Dame Mary Donaldson, was one of those on... - View image in PDF