LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLOVELLY, DEVON.—During a thick fog, a strong W.S.W. breeze, and a rough sea on the night of the 16th February, the s.s. AMI, of Bilbao, stranded about two and a half miles to the westward of Clovelly and the crew took to the ship's...
Category: Services
FOREVER BY THE SEA
Keep a loved on forever by the sea with an online tribute.
Category: Advertisement
(Left) Abersoch: the Atlantic 21 Ilb Her Tractor and Boathouse Were A/I Provided By the People of Wolverhampton
(Left) Abersoch: The Atlantic 21 ILB, her tractor and boathouse were a/I provided by the people of Wolverhampton.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards presented by HM King Constantine
BRONZE MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY Former Port St Mary crew member Rick Tomlinson, Lough Swilly On 16 April 1991 photographer Rick Tomlinson was taking publicity shots of the Lough Swilly D class lifeboat from his rigid inflatable when a fishing...
Category: Awards
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
By the Time the Fast Afloat Boat 4 Prototype
Developing new lifeboats to meet the needs of the 1990s and into the next century is an expensive business. By the time the Fast Afloat Boat 4 prototype pictured here enters service it is estimated that production boats will cost some... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Bear necessities Mrs Mary Woods of Hamble ladies' guild, has been knitting personalized teddy bears since 1984, and the proceeds of the sale some 466 teddies has provided three Neil Robertson stretchers for Beaumaris, Eastbourne and...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Three sailors in a Life-boat, — one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted mariner from the waves ; inscription, " Let not the deep swallow me up." THIS Medal appeal's to have been one of the chef d'osuvres of the...
Category: Medals
Adams of the Goodwin Sands
" Bill" Adams of the Goodwins died at Deal in 1926. The tempestuous weather round our coasts which heralded 1930 has spoken loudly to us of him and of his dauntless successors.
I WILL ADAMS of the Goodwin Sands !...
Category: Poetry
Killed on Service. Death of the Scarborough Bowman
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services