LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
After the naming of The Scout by HM The Queen, Hartlepool coxswain, Robert Maiden and crew members are presented to Her Majesty by Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), and to HRH The Duke of Kent by Captain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal Service at Appledore
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 46 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1935 64,048 Bronze Medal Service at Appledore.
ON the...
Category: Services
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At about 8.40 P.M.
on the 26th January, the coastguard reported that news had been received from Herne Bay that two rockets had been seen in the neighbourhood of the Girdler lightvessel. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing,...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Category: Advertisement
Coxswain David Gallichan of Beaumaris In Anglesey
Coxswain David Gallichan of Beaumaris in Anglesey joined the lifeboat crew in 1957 and became second coxswain in 1974 before being appointed coxswain in 1980. He was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for saving the crew of a fishing vessel in a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat and Its Work
Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...
Category: Articles
Union Star
THE LOSS OF SOLOMON BROWNE AND HER CREW, DECEMBER 19, 1981PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1...
Two New Life-Boat Films
Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...
Category: Articles
Return to the Boat-House
The Newquay life-boat station was established in 1860. Its life-boats have been launched fifty- one times on service and have rescued 103 lives. It has the steepest launching slipway on our coasts, with a gradient of 1 in 2f, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Spanish Trawlers Monte Izankun and Costa da Isolda
Trawlers aided TWO SPANISH trawlers in difficulties two miles north of Skelligs rocks—one had a rope fouling her propeller and the other had engine trouble—on November 9, 1972, led to the Valentia, Co. Kerry, lifeboat being...