LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Large Crowds Gathered Four Times a Day to Watch the Combined RAF and RNLI Rescue Displays.
Large crowds gathered four times a day to watch the combined RAF and RNLI rescue displays.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Help of Coxswains and Crews
THE Institution is fortunate in often having the help of its Coxswains and Crews, not only in manning the Life- boats, but in raising funds, sometimes by their personal efforts and sometimes in the form of gifts out of salvage money which...
Category: Donations
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Annual Presentation
blLVhK MkUALb FOR GALLENTRY Coxswain Peter Bisson, St Peter Port - 29 August 1992 Coxswain Bisson and his crew braved force 9 winds and 15-20ft seas to snatch six yachtsmen to safety from the Sena Sioria. During the rescue the yacht's...
Category: Awards
St. Gerard
DECEMBER 9TH. -ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 10.40 on the night of the 8th of December it was learned from the Civic Guards that the fishing boat St. Gerard, of Dublin, with a crew of six, was overdue. She had been expected back...
To Five Vessels In One Day. Bronze Medal to the Southend-On-Sea Coxswain
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 139 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 25 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1938 - - - - 65,989 To Five Vessels in One...
Category: Services
Lilida
Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...
Higgy and a Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 8.45 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was reported to be in difficulties three and a half miles east of Trusthorpe. Her engine had failed and there was a...
The Belgian Fishing Boat Anna Maria and Mobeka (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND P O R T P A T R I C K , W I G T O W N - SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was...
Ontario, of Liverpool
On Sunday, the 16th October, the steam-ship Ontario, of Liverpool, struck on the Hasborough Sand, on the Norfolk eoa,st, during a strong breeze from the W.N.W. The Caister life-boat went off to her assistance ; but her services were declined...
Inaugural Ceremonies: Scotland
FIVE Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place in Scotland during the past summer, at Girvan, Port Patrick and Kirkcudbright on the West Coast, and Cromarty and Dunbar on the East Coast. At the first four of these Cere- monies the Duke of...
Category: Inaugurations