LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harmony
— The schooner Harmony, of Preston, while bound from Garston to Wexford with a cargo of coal, ran ashore on the Black- water Bank, on the 24th April, and became a total wreck. Her signals of distress were observed by the Coast- guard, who...
Some Heroes of 1913
medals are more difficult to earn, and hence few are more highly appreciated, than the Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It may indeed well be regarded as the Victoria Cross of the sea service, although it differs from that...
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RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
NO PEACE FOR NEWLY WEDS
‘Just another day being married to an RNLI coxswain,’ says newly-wed Trina Sawyer, whose big day with Eastbourne lifeboat Coxswain...
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The U.S.A. Liberty Ship Abraham Baldwin
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the...
The Spanish Liquid Gas Carrier Butaseis
Liquid gas carrier fire A SPANISH LIQUID gas carrier Butaseis, lying at anchor three quarters of a mile off Brixham breakwater with a fire in her crew's quarters, was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0749...
Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon
On the morning of 12th May, a moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Three local fishing boats—Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon—were at sea, and as it was seen that they could only cross the harbour bar at a big risk, it was...
Clarkeden
INJURED SEAMAN Penlee, Cornwall. At 9 p.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary told the coxswain that the motor vessel Clarkeden was approaching with an injured man aboard. At 12.45 a.m. the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
AT two o'clock in the morning of 14th November, 1901, the Beauchamp, the No. 2 life-boat at Caister, Norfolk, was launched in answer to flares of distress seen from a vessel on the Barber Sands.
A whole gale was blowing...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The S.S. Alnmouth
At 6.30 P.M. on the 11 th November, information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares N. by W. from the Fore Ness Signal Station. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were promptly assembled and the...