LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Advance In the Motor Life-Boat
THE last article on the Installation of the Motor in Life-boats appeared in The Life-boat Journal, VOL XX., No. 225, published in August, 1907, and it will it is thought be of interest to our readers if we review the progress made since that...
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An Admiralty Tug
THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...
Schools for Sailors. Second Article
IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...
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Havfru
A Fine Cromer Service.
" 'Tis not in mortals to command success," though none deserve it better than a Life-boat crew, battling with the elements for the lives of their fellowmen.
It is our...
Salcombe Life-Boat Disaster
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark;...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Abersoch, Caernarvonshire. — On the 29th June Mr. William Owen saw a small sailing boat capsize and ran and told two boatmen, who put out in a motor boat. They found two men and a woman clinging to the keel in an exhausted condition,...
Category: Services
First Gold Medal for Ten Years
FOR the first time for ten years and for only the second time since the end of the last war the Institution's highest award for gallantry, the gold medal, has been conferred. The medal was awarded to Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre,...
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Book Reviews
With his series of books telling the stories of different life-boat stations Grahame Farr is making a unique contribution to the history of the life-boat service. Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel (Part II): The Story of the Welsh...
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Orkney Coxswain Wins Second Silver Medal
COXSWAIN Daniel Kirkpatrick of Longhope has achieved the unusual distinction of being awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the second time. His second award was made for the rescue of nine men from the Aberdeen...
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Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...