LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats
BARMOUTH.—On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as...
Category: Services
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1938 issue A New Medal for Gallantry SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals,...
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Euphemia Fullerton
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN. — A messenger having brought information at 1.30 P.M. on the 6th February that a vessel was ashore on the north end of the Long Kock, the crew of the Admiral HenryMeynell Life-boat at once assembled, and crowds of the...
Fishing Vessels
This Life-boat also performed important service on the 31st August. On that day a sudden gale from the N.N.W. was severely felt at all the northern stations. At day- light a considerable number of fishing craft were observed to be making for...
'Big Sister' Is World Leader
BY the end of the 1960s it was obvious that a larger lifeboat, which could operate at night was needed. After testing various rigid hull boats, the RNLI chose one pioneered by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare at Atlantic College, South Wales. The...
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A Sailboard
Windsurfer saved in broken seas and 8ft surf A service carried out by Bridlington's D class inflatable lifeboat in very heavy seas has earned the helmsman, Andrew Brompton, a framed letter of thanks from the chairman of the RNLI, and...
Princess Wilhelmina
Tempes- tuous weather was experienced on the north-east coast during the last days of September, and the Swedish barque Princess Wilhelmina of Halmstad, laden with firewood from Kemi to Dundee, became embayed off St. Andrews. Fail- ing to...
A Ship
BALLYW ALTER, Go. DOWN.—On the 11tb.
March, at midnight, signals of distress were shown from a ship ashore on the Long Bock opposite Ballywalter, and in response thereto the Life-boat Admiral Henry Meynett was promptly...
Dayspring
FRASERBURGH.—On the 15th August about two hundred of the fishing-boats put to sea, but as weather was threatening the remaining six hundred boats did not venture out. Towards night the wind increased until it attained the force of a gale,...
Fjordheim
The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey and the Insti- tution's steam-tug were called out for service at 8 P.M. on the 6th March. A telephone message stated that signals of distress had been reported N.N.E.
from Pentire, and...