LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats
YOUHGHAL, IRELAND.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
Category: Services
Themlyay
YACHT FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the Wyke coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a wireless message received from the yacht Themlyay, of Hull, stating that she...
Life-Boatman's Gallantry on the High Seas
Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed of the year. WHEN the trawler Sarepta of Lowestoft was returning from the fishing grounds on October 31st last, in heavy, squally and very cold weather, with a heavy sea...
Category: Awards
Heroines
Recently, people of all ages remembered the bravery of a lifesaver who battled fierce seas in a little rowing boat to carry out a rescue 175 years ago. This was no archetypal Victorian coxswain, but a lighthousekeeper’s...
Category: Articles
The S.S. New Verdun
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At about 6 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel in distress and burning flares N.E. of House Sand Fort. She was the s.s. New Verdun,of Plymouth, bound from Middlesbrough for Portsmouth...
Coxswain Jeremy Rees
Bronze Medal Coxswain Jeremy Rees cif Angle for a six hour service in gale force winds saving a passenger boat from 80ft cliffs and the lives of its four passenger-see TheLifeboat Winter 1997/98 for a full report of the service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The work of the Institution mainly consists of:— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
2. Payments...
Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat People
WHEN FISHERMAN John Nudds of Wells, Norfolk, and his crew, Alfred Smith and Martin Frary, were presented with letters of commendation by the RNLI for rescuing the lives of two yachtsmen in difficulties last June, their 'local', the...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 8th May last at Willis's Rooms, His Grace the DDKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair. The noble President, with great clearness, in an excellent...
Category: Meetings
Olive Leaf and Crest
Cloughey, Newcastle, and Ardglass, Co.
Down. — 31st October. The coast- guard had telephoned that an aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea about one and a half miles S.E. of St.
John's...