LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
As announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, the Committee of Management decided in May that every Life-boat Station, on the completion of a hundred years, should be presented with a Vellum to be hung in the Town Hall or other public...
Category: Articles
Drama in the dark
On the evening of 11 September 2014, the St Agnes lifeboat sped towards granite cliffs. It was the calmest night of the year – but, inside a flooded cave, a hidden drama was unfolding
Helmsman...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: Neil Oliver
The lead presenter of the BBC’s long-running Coast series shares his admiration for our supporters and lifesavers – especially the volunteers who rescued him …
You’ve come face to...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shorehelpers
Awards To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's...
Category: Awards
The Admiralty Salvage Craft L.C. 18
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DECEMBER 4TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 9.15 at night the coastguard at Hope Cove reported a vessel ashore at the lower end of Skerries, three miles to the east of Start Point. Shewas the Admiralty salvage craft...
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Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...
The First Service of the Lerwick Life-Boat
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...
Category: Services
New Appointments
Mr. D. H. ROFF has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution in succession to Mr. Stirling Whorlow.
Mr. Roff, who was born in 1902, joined the Institution in 1919. He worked for a number of years in the Chief...
Category: Committee
Fishing Cobles
Four days afterwards a sudden gale from N.E., accompanied by rain, sprang up on this coast, and great excitement was occasioned at Eedcar from the fact of there being five fishing cobles out at sea. The gale came on between 7 and 8 A.M., and...
The S.S Hawkwood
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...