LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Snaefell
FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.—At 8 P.M. on the 4th February the Life-boat Sob Newbon was launched, intelligence having been received from the coastguard that a vessel was aground on the Black Rock. A moderate wind was blowing from E.N.E., and there...
Dixy Porr
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 1.30 on the -afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was stranded near the Shiant Isles. The life-boat James and Margaret Boyd put out at 1.50 in a calm...
Suffolk Firm Building Faster Boats for the Rnli
When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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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 regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KINO EVWAKD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Lite-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
Feature: Shoreworks
We ask the questions Providing lifeboats is an essential part of the RNLI, but making sure the facilities are in place to launch them is equally important. The building and upkeep of lifeboat stations and facilities is down to the shoreworks...
Category: Articles
The Late Fatal Accident to the Calais Life-Boat
THE unfortunate accident which occurred to the Calais mail-packet Prince Frederick William, in February last, will be fresh in the memory of many of our readers, when the upsetting of one of the Calais life-boats, which had proceeded to the...
Category: Articles
Offshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1980
Aith, Shetland May 28 Aldeburgh, Suffolk April 8 Angle, Dyfed April 12 Arbroath, Angus May 11 and 13 Arranmore, Co Donegal March 7 and 26 Barra Island, Inverness-shire April 7 Barrow, Cumbria March 24 and May 16 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan...
Category: Services
A Sailboard
Windsurfer saved BRONZE MEDAL IN A SOUTHERLY GALE FORCE 8, gUSting tO severe gale force 9, a windsurfer was in trouble in the sea off Croyde. It was 1257 on Sunday December 1, 1985, when Hartland Coastguard alerted Appledore lifeboat station...