LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Juan Therese
At 11.13 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, a yacht was seen firing distress signals in the vicinity of the Tongue sands. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.20 in a strong south south westerly wind and...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1908
No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services from Page 12
from page 12 were sent to Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony G. Hawkins, Second Assistant Mechanic Roy W.
Couzens and Crew Members John J.
Smith, David Williams, Geoffrey I.
Buckland and...
Category: Services
A Gift of Gold
The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...
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Welcome
Phil, interviewed on page 18, lost his son to the sea. Now he has pledged his support for the RNLI’s Respect the Water campaign, which this year will reach more people than ever. It wasn’t easy for Phil to talk about the tragedy that has hit...
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The Duchess of Norfolk With Some of Her Workers at the Mansion House In 1924, Personalities at a Gala Performance In Aid of the R.N.L.I, at the Plaza Cinema, London, Between the Wars, and Th
The Duchess of Norfolk with some of her workers at the Mansion House in 1924, personalities at a gala performance in aid of the R.N.L.I, at the Plaza Cinema, London, between the wars, and three jovial flag-sellers at London Life-boat Day,...
Category: Articles
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...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Frederick Swarts, of Barry Dock, who has been coxswain since the 1st April, 1956. For nearly ten years before that he was second coxswain.
Since he became a boat's officer...
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May of Campbeltown
LIFE-BOAT HELPS TO REFLOAT FISHING VESSEL Islay, Hebrides. At 4.45 on the morning of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he felt some concern for the safety of the crew of a motor fishing vessel, which was...