LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly - At 7.20 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a ketch was in difficulties trying to roundthe Garrison from St. Mary's sound. The life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station, was...
(Right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles Inserts the Final Piece
(right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles inserts the final piece in the jigsaw - a symbolic completion of the seven-year plan to have fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) the Lifeboat Depot Maintains a Supply and Repair Service for Lifeboats and Gives a 24-Hour Service for the Supply of Items Required at Stations In Emergencies
(Below) The lifeboat depot maintains a supply and repair service for lifeboats and gives a 24-hour service for the supply of items required at stations in emergencies.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stanlow Shell Oil Refinery Gives Its Support to Moelfre Lifeboat and Last Autumn Members of Chester Branch Were Invited to Luncheon to Receive a Cheque for £150 Rais
Stanlow Shell Oil Refinery gives its support to Moelfre lifeboat and last autumn members of Chester branch were invited to luncheon to receive a cheque for £150 raised by apprentices with various sponsored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Most Lives Saved
Feature The most lives saved A hundred years ago, a liner full of passengers needed saving off the Cornish coast – one lifeboat just wasn’t going to be enough After months at sea, the White Star liner Suevic was within hours of completing...
Category: Articles
Lives Lost In 1854
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 1,549.
Of these, 13 were lost in the Embla, wrecked near Blyth in a snow-storrn, on the 7th of January; 290 in the Tayleur, wrecked at...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1956. 66 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 34 times and rescued 31 lives.
ANGLERS IN DISTRESS IN PLYMOUTH SOUND Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm...
Category: Services
Gifts from Life-Boat Crews
THE Institution has recently received gifts from four of its Crews out of sums which they themselves have received for the salving of vessels: from the Aldeburgh No. 2 crew, which saved the Norwegian whaler Chr. Crastberg, of Sandefjord, on...
Category: Donations
Gifts from the Fighting Services.
Here are some of the many gifts received recently from the fighting services: £63 from a battalion in the Middle East; £36 from a battalion in Gibraltar; £128 from British troops in Iceland; £42 from an R.A.F. maintenance...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverte,—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. "Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals