LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...
Category: Awards
A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
Category: Services
Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
Wild Rose, of Brixham
On the morning of the 3rd December, the life-boat at this place put off, and rendered assistance to the brig Wild £ose, of Brixham, which was observed to be in a dismantled state off Cromer during stormy weather. When the life-boat...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To SIDNEY H. B. PAGE, on his retirement, after serving for 21J years as coxswain, G months as second coxswain and 1 year as bowman of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement...
Category: Awards
Faith, Glynn, Seaview, Queen of The West, Maria Reid,Edith Ma
During a moderate easterly gale on the 31st October, several vessels which were at anchor off Rosslare Harbour got into a dangerous position owing to their anchors not holding. Seeing they were in danger, Coxswain Hayes launched the...
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution from 6 January to 12 June 1860
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Category: Services
In the New Year's Honours List
IN the new year's honours list appeared three lifeboat names. Commander Philip Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the late chief inspector of life-boats, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. John S. Duncan, the honorary secretary...
Category: Articles
Ronachan, of Glasgow
On the 18th Jan. intelligence was received at the Isle of Whithorn that a large threes-masted vessel was at anchor in Luce Bay, in a position of some peril. The Charlie Peek Life-boat was thereupon quickly launched through a heavy sea, and,...
The R.N.L.I. Has Built Up Over 140 Years a Major Collection of Life-Boat Photographs and Illustrations. But Life-Boat Crews In Hazardous Conditions Seldom Get the Chance to Take Photographs. Som
The R.N.L.I. has built up over 140 years a major collection of life-boat photographs and illustrations. But life-boat crews in hazardous conditions seldom get the chance to take photographs. Sometimes the R.A.F. photographs lifeboats on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs