LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE variety of services performed by life-boats and the variety of vessels which life-boats help have been clearly illustrated during the past quarter.
The first ten services for the month of May, which are recorded on...
Category: Articles
Little and Broad Haven May 9: Handing Over and Dedication of New Ilb Donated By the City of Coventry Photograph By Courtesy of a Williams
Little and Broad Haven, May 9: Handing over and dedication of new ILB donated by the City of Coventry. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of A. Williams.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverte,—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. "Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
In Days Gone By. . .
In days gone by. . .
I thought readers may be interested to see this old photograph, taken around 1916, of girls collecting for the lifeboats.
My mother, Lillian (nee) Bosworth, is the girl on the right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
CUT OFF BY TIDE: 34 TEENS
4 CUT OFF BY TIDE: 34 TEENS
DOVER/WALMER | 16 JUNE
In a widely publicised rescue, lifeboat crews from Dover and Walmer helped save 34 teenagers and two adults, stranded at the bottom of the cliffs. The group were on a...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
TYRELLA, DUNDRUM BAT, IRELAND.— During a whole gale of wind from S.S.E., on the 6th December, 1865, a schooner was seen endeavouring to beat out of Dundrum Bay. Owing to the heavy gale and the tremendous sea running, she failed in doing so,...
Category: Services
Sir William Hillary, Founder of the Institution
WHEN, in March, 1920, I paid my first visit to the Isle of Man, I did so for a double reason. I wanted to see all the Isle of Man Stations and to have the advantage of meeting the Honorary Secretaries and Committees. But the main object in...
Category: Articles
Fram
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.35 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was leaking badly half a mile east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.5 the life-boat Michael and...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
In an Raises money every time you spend* emergency No annual fee our volunteers Interest - free period of up to 56 days rely on this Up to £100 cash back on transferred balances from other credit and store cards** piece of...
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The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are Intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is ; stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- I strrirnoif, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew,...
Category: Committee