LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Generous Scottish Ladies. Gifts and Legacies of £92,392 In Eleven Years
A REMARKABLE feature of life-boat appeals during recent years has been the number of gifts for building motor life-boats for the Scottish coast received from ladies in Scotland. Since the beginning of 1928 nine such gifts have been received,...
Category: Donations
Royal Aeronautical Society Award
FLIGHT SERGEANT B. BREACH, of No. 228 Squadron R.A.F., has been awarded the Alan Marsh medal for the rescue of the crew of five of the North Carr lightvessel in December 1959. It was after putting out in an attempt to render help to the...
Category: Awards
The Norwegian Bulk Carrier Blix
Injured seaman THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station was asked at 1600 on Tuesday October 14, 1980, if an injured seaman could be taken off the Norwegian bulk carrier Blix. A rendezvous was arranged for midnight in Dublin...
Accident With a Maroon
A MOST unfortunate accident, resulting in the death of the Coxswain, occurred at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, on 6th August, on which day Life-boat Day and a Road Practice of the Life-boat were to be held. Coxswain Kneen, in firing the maroon...
Category: Articles
Inshore Lifeboats
EARLY SUMMER began with several inshore lifeboat ceremonies. On Saturday, May 14, a number of readers of the Birmingham Evening Mail, together with members of Birmingham branch committee, travelled to Exmouth, South Devon, for the handing...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
Category: Services
RNLI FAMILY: The Life of the Charity Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Wedding Day Shout
As Lough Swilly Crew Member Francy Burns took the microphone for his wedding speech, his bride-to be, Helen, was surprised to hear the sound of a pager instead of the traditional declarations of love....
Category: Articles
Irb Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow,...
Category: Services