LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HYTHE, KENT.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment in the neighbourhood of this place, the station being styled the Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone Life-boat Station. The boat is manned by a joint crew of...
Category: Articles
Gilded Age
QUEENSTOWN.—Ofl the 27th October, at about 10.15 A.M., a telegram was received from the Coastguard Station, at Eobert's Cove, stating that a yacht was in distress off Cork Head. The Quiver Life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded,...
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-third Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the Mansion House, London, by kind per- mission of the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, 17th April, 1917, at 3.30 P.M. H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G....
Category: Meetings
on His Retirement Coxswain Thomas Knott Whose Service Is Recorded on Page 138 Was Presented With Two Paintings By Norfolk Artist Jason Partner (/ to R) Coxs
. . . On his retirement Coxswain Thomas Knott, whose service is recorded on page 138, was presented with two paintings by Norfolk artist Jason Partner. (/. to r.) Coxswain Peter Gibbons, Mrs Joan Knott, Tommy Knott, Lord Somerleyton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M.V. Renee
Lifeboatman injured AT 05 15 ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988 Mr Llew Hardy the station honorary secretary of Swanage lifeboat was advised by Portland Coastguard that the MV Renee was in difficulties in heavy seas 10 miles south south west of...
A Small Boat from Kingsley
Clovelly, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th cf May, 1948, the Rev.
H. C. A. S. Muller, of Appledore. landed in a small boat from the motor pleasure boat Kingsley, of Barnstaple, and reported that the boat's...
Farthings
As a result of the statement in the Institution's appeals in 1933 that the £250,000 a year which it needed was equivalent to five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles, not only has it received a good many in-...
Category: Donations
March (1)
MARCH MEETING ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE. At noon on the 6th of September, 1942, the Scarborough motor fishing coble Florence was fishing in Robin Hood’s Bay. The weather was line, with a light westerly wind and a smooth sea. The coble...
Category: Services
Maritime Book Society
EQUIP YOURSELF FOR ANY VOYAGE '. . . every point of sailing under all rigs and in all weathers, meteorology, navigation and boat handling it should equip the yachtsman mentally and materially for any kind of voyage.' Sea Breezes '...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WM. HENRY TRIPP, on his retirement, after serving 12J years as Bowman, 3J years as Second Coxswain, and nearly 14 years as Coxswain of the Porthoustock Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To MATTHEW...
Category: Awards