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Actaeon

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—In the early morning of the 27th February, during moderate but cold weather, a barque was observed on the Hasboro' Sands.

The No. 2 Life-boat, Margaret, was launched and made for the wreck; on the...

Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: June 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 424

Coxswain Leo A. Clegg, D.S.C., D.A., of the Aberdeen life-boat Ramsay-Dyce, Appointed second coxswain in 1960, Coxswain Clegg, who is a lecturer at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, became coxswain later that year. Since 1960 the life-boat... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Gift of Daffodils

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

LAST year a doctor in Market Weighton, Yorkshire, cut and sold his bed of daffodils and 'gave the money, over £19, to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. He has done the same this year, and it has brought the Guild another...

Category: Donations

Olga

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

Trial of patience A MESSAGE from the 1,100-ton coastal tanker Olga, on passage from Liverpool to Bergen, stating she was aground on Bhride Island and that the crew of 10 aboard required assistance, was intercepted by Portpatrick radio...

H.M. Trawler Flotta and H.M. Trawler Filey Bay

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.

Cover Picture

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

The crew of Dover lifeboat, a/1 of whom received medals following ike service to the sinking cargo ship Sumnia on October 16, 1987. Pictured aboard the relief Tyne class Good Shepherd on the Thames before they were awarded their medals by... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Medallists

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

Frederick Upton, Percy Cavell, James Upperton, William Jones, Frederick Palmer.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Life-Boat Song

Date: November 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 186

'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore.

For a ship to the rocks is nigh. : Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...

Category: Poetry

The New Wells IRB and Boathouse

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

The New Wells Irb and Boathouse Pictured Are Coxswain David Cox (Left) of Wells Lifeboat and Crew Member A Warner. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Rod James

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Rod James Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 during the Bronze medal service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988. Crew Member James was awarded the Institution's Thanks on Vellum for his part in the service, as was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs