LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Institution has awarded its silver medal to W. Orchard, its second motor mechanic at Padstow, for taking command of the life-boat when she travelled 28 miles in a rough sea and blinding squalls of rain, and rescued seven lives from a...

Immediate thanks On Wednesday December 10, 1980, our diving boat Kermit, named after a famous frog, decided to roll over on her back in an attempt to swim like her namesake. She found, however, that although in this position floating was...

Twenty men were present at the annual meeting, on l l th May, 1938, to receive awards for gallantry. This is the largest number which has ever attended the annual meeting.. - View image in PDF

THURSDAY, 9th Juno, 1904.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

Football clubs by foot John Pope, committee member of the Rushden branch, completed a sponsored walk in August, raising £411 for lifeboat coffers.

He walked 26 miles from Peterborough United football club to Rushden... - View image in PDF

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated fry Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IH 1824 —SUPPORTED SOLELY BX VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

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HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...

SCARBOROUGH.—The dandy Vivid, of Scarborough, bound from West Hartlepool for Woodbridge with coal, being caught by a gale from the E.S.E. and a very heavy sea off Plamborough Head, on the llth March, returned to Scarborough and attempted to...

Angle, Dyfed September 12 Appledore, North Devon September 5 and November 4 Arbroath, Angus November 30 Arklow, Co. Wicklow October 15 Arranmore, Co. Donegal September 26 Ballycotton, Co. Cork November 15 Baltimore, Co. Cork October 22 Barra...