LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and. in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
Awards to Honorary Workers. Made Since May, 1947
Honorary Life-Governor The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MRS....
Category: Awards
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Bully for Kirkwall! Kirkwall Scotland North Division RNLI lorry driver George Dadson became part of an unusual lifeboat crew at Kirkwall in the middle of October.
George had arrived at the station with his 17-ton truck to...
Eat, win, love
Have you tried New Covent Garden’s Smoked Haddock Chowder yet?
Special cartons of the soup have been raising funds for the RNLI for the past 6 months, and now there's another reason to indulge in a no-fuss, nourishing...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHPORT, LANCASHIRE.—The Life- boat on this station was rapidly becoming unfit for further service, and it has there- fore been replaced by a new 10-oared boat, 34 feet long, and 8J feet wide. The legacy of 5001. bequeathed to the...
Category: Articles
Fig 2: Looking Forward from the Transom
Fig. 2: Looking forward from the transom down the fast slipway lifeboat's starboard propeller tunnel. Further protection will be given to the propellers by deep bilge keels not yet fitted.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TRAPPED BY THE TIDE
Two walkers and their dog get caught between rising seawater and 30m cliffs
Christine and Mollie stepped off the bus at Tregantle in Cornwall in late September for a day’s walking. The 25 miles between Cremyll and Polperro...
Category: Articles
"Man the Life-Boat."
THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...
Category: Poetry
Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
Category: Articles
Donaghadee: One of the Guardians of the Northern Approaches By Joan Davies
AUGUST 1910: DONAGHADEE station was established, its first boat being one of the earliest motor lifeboats in the Institution's fleet, a 43' Watson with a 40 hp engine capable of nearly 7 knots.
August 1975: it was...
Category: Articles