LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
More Than 50 Hardy Walkers Set Off on a 20 Mile Trek from Whitstable Harbour
More than 50 hardy walkers set off on a 20 mile trek from Whitstable harbour to boost funds for the planned extension to the boathouse. Chairman of the fund raising committee, Mrs Linda Livingstone, organised the sponsored walk to Faversham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain John Gill
COXSWAIN JOHN GILL, of Galway Bay, who served as bowman from 1932 to 1933, second coxswain from 1933 to 1938 and coxswain from 1938 to 1943, was awarded the bronze medal in 1938 for the rescue of eleven men when the steam trawler Nogi went...
Category: Obituaries
Increased Retaining Fees for Coxswains and Others
IN the August issue of The Life-Boat it was announced that the Committee of Management had decided, as from April, 1920, to give a further increase of 25 per cent, in the rewards paid to Coxswains and crews for going afloat to save life....
Category: Articles
Classic Wave
It was a calm September afternoon for a yacht and her crew - until sudden engine trouble combined with a turning tide and a change in the weatherAs the yacht Classic Wave passed between the Isles of Kerrera and Bach off Oban, Argyll, her...
The S.S. Taunton
The s.s. Taunton, of Liverpool, whilst bound from New- port to Rouen, on the 27th December, with a cargo of stores for the French government, was in danger owing to her anchors not holding. When she was about one mile from Gwythian Beach,...
Glynwood
-Prior to the service rendered by the Rhoscolyn Life-boat, Mr. WILLIAMS had been engaged for many hours at Holyhead with the life-saving apparatus, other vessels being in imminent danger there. At 3.45 A.M. the Life-boat Thomas Fielden was...
Olympic Skating Star John Curry Shows His Gold Medal to Branch Members Manning the Rnli Stand at Birmingham Boat Show: (I to R) Mrs G Cope Bill Cotton Roger Co
Olympic skating star John Curry shows his gold medal branch members manning the RNLI stand at Birmingham Boat Show: to r.) Mrs G. Cope, Bill Cotton, Roger Cope; looking over their shoulders Mrs C. E. Lea, honorary secretary of Birmingham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Her Majesty the Queen's Recognition of Gallant Conduct
THE destruction by fire of H. M.'s troop-ship Birkenhead, in 1852, and of the hired transport Europa,* in 1854, will no doubt be remembered by many of our readers.
Both catastrophes were attended by lamentable loss of...
Category: Articles
Lochgoil Argyll
No one was left in any doubt over which charity was being supported by this particular raft. The race was held at Lochgoil, Argyll, and at the helm of the raft is Dr J. R. R. Holms, chairman of the recently formed Lochgoil branch. By showing... - View image in PDF
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 11.0 in the morning of the 28th of December, 1951, the Post Office asked if the life- boat would take the Christmas mail to the islands of Eigg, Rhum and Canna as the regular steamer had not made its weekly call...