LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Deck of 70-001 As Shortly After Dawn on February 6 She and St.Pierre Approached Race Off North of Lundy: Wind Force 10 to 11 Tide Setting About 4 Knots Again
From deck of 70-001 as, shortly after dawn on February 6, she and St. Pierre approached race off north of Lundy: wind, force 10 to 11, tide setting about 4 knots against wind. As 70-001 begins descent down front of wave, tow line, almost bar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue By Fifteen-Year-Old Boy
AT 10.30 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station, Captain H. H. Davies, that a man was in danger on a bank opposite the Heswall Yacht Club, and asked if the...
Category: Articles
The Hull's Shape Emerges at This Stage the Boat Is Built Upside Down
The Hull's Shape Emerges at This Stage The Boat Is Built Upside Down. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Station Secretaries
JOHN W. BAYES, M.B.E., honorary secretary at Flamborough from Sep- tember 1920 to July 1954, died on the 24th of November, 1954. For his long and valued services the Institution awarded him binoculars in 1931 and the gold badge in 1948. In...
Category: Obituaries
List of Legacies Left to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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1825. JOHN HENRY HECKER, Esq., Finsbury Square 1,000 0 0 1830. WILLIAM PRIOR, Esq., Herne Hill, Camberwell 1,827 14 8 1830. WILLIAM WALCOT, Esq., Oundle, Northamptonshire 50 0 0 1832. Mrs. DUPPA,...
Category: Donations
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.
Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...
Category: Medals
"Literature of the Life-Boat"
IN October, 1936, Literature of the Life-boat, by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president-of the Institution, appeared as a supplement to; The Life-boat, and. a second part appeared a year later. In these two supplements Sir...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of December, 1956, the St. John Ambulance Area Commissioner reported that an urgent call had been received from a doctor at Sark informing him of a maternity case requiring...
Annie Cargill
MARCH 10TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 5.5 P.M. the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing boat, Annie Cargill, was in difficulties and drifting rapidly towards the rocks half a mile east of Arbroath harbour.
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain John Donnan, of the Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down, life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow.
Appointed coxswain in April, 1966, he had previously been second coxswain from April, 1961, to March, 1966. In 1965 the old Cloughey...
Category: Articles