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"A Fisherman's Yarn"

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

IN 1948 Mr. Paul Rotha made for the Institution a twenty-minute film, with music and a running commentary, which was to show the Life-boat Service from the point of view of the fishermen from whom its crews are drawn. It was taken at...

Category: Articles

The New Lerwick Life-Boat Arrives at Her Station

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

The New Lerwick Life-Boat Arrives at Her Station. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Medallists: (I to R) Coxswain Derek Scott Bem the Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Lidd

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, The Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones, Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones, Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Liddon, Dover; Second Coxswain Peter Gibbons, Lowestoft; Former Second Coxswain... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

January

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.

JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...

Category: Services

There She Goes!

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

(photo courtesy Peter Berry). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

B528 Leaves the Station With the College Lasers In the Background

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

B528 leaves the station, with the college Lasers in the background.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Life-Boat Medallists, 1915-1916

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

IN another column of the Life-boat Journal we give an account of the exceptionally fine service performed by the Gorleston Life-boatmen on the 29th March, which led to the Fifth Service Clasp being bestowed on Cox- swain Sidney Harris and...

Category: Medals

Fairwinds

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

YACHT TOWED INTO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 6.24 on the evening of the 5th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing distress flares two miles south of Portland Bill.

The life...

Terrible Life-Boat Disaster at Kingstown

Date: February 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 179

and mercifully disasters resulting in the loss of a whole Life-boat crew are very few and far between, but an accident of this character took place, alas! at Kingstown on Christmas Eve, and was the worst which had befallen the Service for...

Category: Articles

The Rosslare Harbour Crew

Date: March 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 301

In the centre: Mr. W. J. B. Moncas (Honorary Secretary) and Coxswain James Wickham.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs