LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Universal Code of Instructions for the Management of the Mortar and Rocket Life Apparatus
DURING the last few years the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have had many opportunities for observing the great need that existed for the adoption of a uniform system of management of the mortar and rocket apparatus, and...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enabla him to support another person besides himself.<...
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
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
Notes of the Quarter
THE NEW LIFEBOAT produced through the efforts of thousands of Scouts in 'Operation Lifeboat' is to be stationed at Hartlepool. The allocation of the boat to this station happened by chance to coincide with a decision of the Committee...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GREAT YARMOUTH. — The small surf Life-boat on this station, the Duff, went off on the 16th January, 1871, to the brig Flora, of Poole, which had parted her anchors and gone on the beach during a strong gale from the South. Proceeding through...
Category: Services
City of Glasgow Ill's Y-Boat Takes Five Belgian Yachtsmen Off the Yacht Bassurelle After She Had Been Driven Aground By Onshore Winds
City of Glasgow Ill's Y-Boat Takes Five Belgian Yachtsmen Off The Yacht Bassurelle After She Had Been Driven Aground By Onshore Winds. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Lee
HOLYHEAD.—On the morning of the 16th January, a rocket, apparently fired about seven miles N.W. of Holyhead, was seen by the coastguard. The crew of the Life-boat Thomas Fielden were called, and the boat was launched at 4.10 being token in...
Awards Presented By Countess Mountbatten
at the Royal Festival Hall on 16 May 1989 [ Bronze Medals for Gallantry Helmsman Alan Clarke, Hunstanton, Norfolk.
On 7 February 1988 the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Spirit of America took off an injured man from...
Category: Awards
Notes of the Quarter
FOLLOWING the birth of a son to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales a letter of congratulations and good wishes was sent to Buckingham Palace by Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, the director, on behalf of...
Category: Articles