LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatman's Gallantry on the High Seas
Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed of the year. WHEN the trawler Sarepta of Lowestoft was returning from the fishing grounds on October 31st last, in heavy, squally and very cold weather, with a heavy sea...
Category: Awards
A Fishing Boat (24)
DECEMBER 10TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A fishing boat had been reported in distress, but was helped by another boat. - Rewards, £25 16s. 6d..
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Car- narvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...
Category: Services
Thor
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT ANGLE DECEMBER 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A gale was blowing from the south-west and a very rough sea was running. In the early evening a small Dutch ship, the motor vessel Thor, of Rotterdam,...
First Launch for the Four Boys
At 1030 on 28 November 1991, Sennen Cove's new Mersey class lifeboat The Four Boys, the first Mersey to be allocated to a slipway station, sped down the slipway on its first launch at its new home.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.
Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...
Category: Services
A Book of Flags
(Oxford University Press, 15s.) ADMIRAL CAMPBELL and Mr. I. O.
Evans, who has done much valuable and voluntary journalistic work on behalf of the Life-boat Service, have compiled an exhaustive and fascinat- ing book about...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Local Committees
An especial feature of the National Ship- wreck Institution, is the establishment of Local Committees for the management of their boats. As stated in the first number of this Journal, the Parent Institution looks to earnest, hearty...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain George Tart of Dungeness. He was appointed coxswain in July 1947.
Since then Dungeness life-boats have been launched on service 97 times and have rescued 27 lives..
Category: Articles