LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?
12 MONTHS
to produce a new...
Category: Articles
Mr. Charlie Brown
Well known at Falmouth, Mr. Charlie Brown, who was an officer on the life-boat for over 38 years, has died at the age of 74. He spent 13 of them as coxswain..
Category: Obituaries
Cover Picture
by Maggie Murray/Format The five medallists arrive for a photocall at Tower Pier, on the Thames, before the Presentation of Awards at the Royal Festival Hall on 14 May 1991.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailor's Mother
One morning (raw it was and wet— A foggy day in winter time) A woman on the road I met, Not old, though something past her prime: Majestic in her person, tall and straight; And like a Roman matron's was her mien and...
Category: Poetry
The Bravest Deed of the Year
THE "Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage, in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke" for the bravest deed of 1949 has been awarded to Percy Shackson, bowman, and William Braund, assistant motor mechanic, of Clovelly, for...
Category: Awards
Life-Belts on Board Our Merchant-Ships
IT is now thirteen years ago that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, called previously to that time the " NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK," seriously undertook and commenced the national work of...
Category: Articles
The Skibbereen Fishing Boat Sirus
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. During the morning a telephone message was received from Union Hall post office that a fishing boat was in difficulties.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
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— 14th November.
Lightvessels had fired signals, but it was found that they were calling for their tender, as one of the crew of the Edinburgh Lightvessel had died.— Rewards, £16 17s. 6d..
Quite Natural
The sea is one of the forces of Nature. So also, it seems, to a sea faring people, is the life-boat service.
A letter has been received addressed to " Royal Natural Life-boat Institu- tion.".
Category: Articles
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Plymouth, Devon. — 26th October.
Strange lights had been seen, but it was learned that they were being used by a party who were trying to rescue a cow which had fallen over the cliffs on to the shore.—Rewards, £2 12s....