LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Selskar and S.S. Nordic
Walmer, Kent—On the night of the 31st of March, 1949, the S.S. Selskar, of Newcastle, and the S.S. Nordic, of Stockholm, were in collision near the South Falls Buoy, and the Ramsgate life-boat was launched, but her services were not needed...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
Category: Articles
The Rnli Looks at the Year's Work and the Future: 97000 Lives Saved Since 1824
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...
Category: Meetings
When Major-General and Mrs Farrant Visited South Wales at the End of November Mrs Farrant Presented a Ship''s Bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the Crew of the Ba
When Major-General and Mrs Farrant visited South Wales at the end of November, Mrs Farrant presented a ship''s bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the crew of the Barry 52' lifeboat Arun. It was to commemorate the first visit she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1894
Jan, 10.—Two men waded into a heavy surf and assisted to save 15 men from a boat, which, while attempting to land at Seaton, CAREW, with 19 men on board belonging to the Nor- wegian B.8. -Edison and barque Kan, which had been in collision,...
Category: Articles
Sue Vidal and Second Coxswain Charlie Sharrod of Hastings Lifeboat
Site Vidul and Second Co.i.swain Charlie Sharrod. of Hustings lifeboat, lake pan in Hexhill Old 'l' me Musical Society's show, organised hv the local Shoreline club at Enst Hastings Angling Club in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1932
1932.
Jan. 1.
„ 3.
Time of Launching.
2.40 p.m.
9.30 a.m.
1.45 p.m.
0. 1.10 a.m.
„...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
Life-Boat Days In 1923
500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
Category: Articles