LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mishandled By the Germans
When the chief inspector visited the two Channel Island stations in June 1945 he found that the Guernsey boat, which had been armed by the Germans with two guns and used as a fishery patrol boat, had been so mishandled that she was unfit for...
Category: Articles
Three Fine Services By the Humber Life-Boat. 102 Lives Rescued In Five Weeks
IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—continued
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Ramsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward...
Category: Services
Stephen Whittle Coxswain of Dunmore East Lifeboat By Ray Kipling
DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
Category: Articles
Twopence for the Life-Boats By Proxy
THE following comes from an account which appeared in the Herts Advertiser of the Life-boat Day held at St. Albans in September.
" Although times are hard, collectors found a very generous spirit abroad both in St....
Category: Donations
List of the Medals of the Institution Voted to Naval and Marine Officers
IN a previous issue we promised to publish a supplemental list of the Gold and Silver Medals voted by the rOYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to officers of the Royal Navy and Marines, in acknowledge- ment of their gallant deeds in Saving...
Category: Medals
Secretary of the Institution
THE Committee of Management, at their meeting on the llth August last, appointed George F. Shee, M.A., Secre- tary of the Institution in succession to the late Mr. Charles Dibdin. Mr. Shee was educated at Stonyhurst and at the University of...
Category: Committee
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the National Life-Boat Institution In 1882
Jan. 3.—Fire men put off in a boat at great risk arid rescued eight men whose boa|, had been driven away from Island Crone, Co. Don- egal, by a sudden gale of wind from the S.W., on the 2nd January, leaving them on the island —which is...
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Notes of the Quarter
AT a press conference held in London on 24th October, Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., Chairman of the R.N.L.I., announced a colourful programme of events to celebrate in 1974 the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the R.N.L.I...
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