LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Private benevolence, energy, and zeal."
The following paragraph first appeared in THE TIMES on 20th February, 1866.
It was printed again in THE TIMES on i$th February, 1966: (Royal National Life-boat Institution) Nothing, in fact, that the Government could do...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boatman's Generosity. Mr. Richard Cowling. Late Signalman of Scarborough
IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
Category: Articles
Pictured Top Left Matthew Edgar Receives His Letter of Thanks and a Goody Bag from Andrew Freemantle, Chief Executive, RNLI
Pictured top left Matthew Edgar receives his letter of thanks and a goody bag from Andrew Freemantle, chief executive, RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
R. B., of Bayonne
The schooner -B. B., of Bayonne, had anchored in Clo- velly Eoads on the 19th December, and it was ascertained that she was partially dis- abled from loss of sails, spars, and both boats. On the following morning, in a very severe gale from...
Walter J. Cummins
During an ex- ceptionally severe northerly gale and very heavy sea on the 8th January signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Walter J. Cummins, of Irvine, which lay off Moelfre weather bound, whilst bound from Wicklow to...
A Sailing Boat (4)
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 P.M. on the 6th July, 1939, a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Major Osman Gabriel Having the Controls of the Rother Class Lifeboat He Has Presented to the RNLI Explained to Him at the Boat Show With Him Are (Left) Coxswain/Me
Major Osman Gabriel having the controls of the Rother class lifeboat he has presented to the R.N.L.I. explained to him at the Boat Show. With him are (left) Coxswain/Mechanic William Dent and Mr. Evan Owens, Moelfre's retired motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School Scarborough Has Been Presented With This Fine Model Lifeboat By Its Maker Mr G Dawson and During Social Functions It Has Alr
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School, Scarborough, has been presented with this fine model lifeboat by its maker, Mr G. Dawson and during social functions it has already inspired contributions to the RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adrift In the Irish Sea. Search By Seven Life-Boats
ON the night of the 15th November, 1937, the three-masted auxiliary schooner Invermore, of Dublin, left New Ross, Co. Wexford, for Liverpool, with a cargo of pit props. She carried a crew of five. During the following night, when she was off...
Category: Services
The S.S. Batoum
Aldeburgh and Southwold, Suffolk.— At about 8 A.M. on the 18th July, an explosion was observed on a large steamer abreast of Southwold, and it was reported that she had been tor- pedoed. As some of the crew were observed leaving the...