LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roden
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of December, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay, and that another trawler was standing by, but could not help. The...
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Three days later, on Wednesday July 30, a message came to the honorary secretary from the Coastguard at 1400 that a bather was in difficulties off Cowden, eight miles to the north. The D class inflatable lifeboat was launched by 1413, manned...
S.S. Favorit
NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 10.20 A.M. the police asked for the services of the life-boat to land a badly wounded man from a steamer in the roadstead. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain William Coull, of Girvan, Ayrshire. He was appointed coxswain on 5th May, 1960. Previously, after nearly six months as bowman, he served from September, 1956, as second coxswain. Since he joined the crew in 1956... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carl Palmby
Carl Palmby, awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum together with an inscribed wristwatch, holding a medallion presented to him by the Southern Gas Angling Society of which the man he rescued on February 27, 1981, is a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Paddle Steamer Ryde Which Is One of the Last Coal-Burning Paddle Steamers In the World
The paddle steamer Ryde, which is one of the last coal-burning paddle steamers in the world, was the scene on 13th September, 1968, of a ball in aid of the R.N.LI, which was sponsored by W. & A. Gilbey Ltd., the makers of Gilbey's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Cutter Margaret
Cromarty.—At 11.34 on the night of the 14th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported that the sailing cutter Mar- garet, with thirteen boys and one officer from the Moray Firth Sea School on board, was overdue. She had last been seen between...
In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
Category: Articles
Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford
Miss ALICE SUSANNA MARSHALL died at Oxford on the 2nd of January, 1951, at over 90 years of age. She had been one of the most distinguished of the honor- ary secretaries of financial branches, and gave the Institution her enthusiastic and...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...
Category: Services