LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Motor Vessel Baradrangur
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH FEBRUARY 8TH. - FRASER-BURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. In the night the Danish motor vessel Baradrangur, of Trangisvoag, with a crew of five, went ashore on the sandsto the south of Fraserburgh. Very heavy seas were...
Where Is Everybody?
Where is everybody? This lonely collector was one of the many who collected in Chichester on Saturday 22 July. Even though the collector was suitably dressed in shorts for the very hot weather, most of the public appeared to be at the beach!... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
—His Most Gracious Majesty the King
ROYAL Highness THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
—Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, BART., V.P. Deputy Chairman —Colonel FitzRoy CLAYTON, V.P.
Secretary -CHARLES...
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Rowing Boats
Thames race disaster avertedThe annual Veterans' Head of the River Race ended in chaos on Sunday, 21 March after being hit by gale-force winds and strong tides.
More than 140 boats were participating, with nine crew in...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING February, March, and April, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other Honorary Workers, in recognition of their services on behalf of the Institution :— To Miss FLOBENCE EDWARDS, in...
Category: Awards
Presentation of French Medals at Torbay and Longhope
THE two silver and six bronze medals, with diplomas, which were awarded to Coxswain William Mogridge, of Torbay, and his crew by the French Government for the rescue of the skipper of the trawler Satanicle, on 30th December, 1935, were...
Category: Medals
Invitation Only'
Invitation only.' By kind invitation of the crew, members of the Weymouth ladies' guild enjoyed a trip on the Weymouth lifeboat while she was on an exercise. The trip was intended as a token of thanks from the crew for all the hard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer helped 4,500 people during the summer of 1974 and saved from certain death 650.
The French lifeboat service is much occupied with the modernisation of its fleet. St Tropez lifeboat,...
Category: Articles
The Scene at Albion Breakwater Walton-On-The-Naze
The scene at Albion Breakwater, Walton-on-the-Naze last June when the centenary re-dedication of Walton and Frinton lifeboat station took place. The Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Admiral Lewis was present, together with the Lord and Lady... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Finance In 1942: Income.
Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...
Category: Articles