LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles (2)
NEWBIGQIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 12th May towards the middle of the day the N.N.E. wind freshened and the sea became dangerously rough.
Several of the fishing cobles were at sea, and as four were known to be some miles...
The Reliance
A strong gale from the N.E. sprung up on the afternoon of the 14th February, accompanied by snow-showers and a very high sea. Most of the fishing-boats had returned home, but one of them, the Reliance, was overtaken by the storm and was...
A Small Boat (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, the life- boat mechanic, with a telescope, was watching a yacht manoeuvring and saw a small boat, two miles east of Runswick Bay, flying a distress signal. It was then 11.45,...
The S.S. Empire Chamois
STANDING BY 7,000-TON STEAMER Plymouth, Devon.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 5th of April, 1947, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a vessel needed help three miles west of Rame Head. A moderate south-south- west gale was blowing, with...
Arbroath Memorial
A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...
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Jane
Ilfracombe, North Devon.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1956, Lloyds agent at Lynmouth reported to the coxswain that the small motor boat Jane, of Ilfracombe, was drifting with the tide off Lynmouth. At 6.50 the life-boat Robert...
Skafe
CATAMARAN BEACHED AFTER CREW TAKEN OFF Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, members of the life-boat crew saw the catamaran Skafe capsize off Black Rock beach. At 1.40 the life-boat Robert Lindsay was...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Brown of Swanage, who has been coxswain since 1941. He was assistant mechanic from 1928 to 1934 and second coxswain from 1934 to 1941. During his period of service Swanage life-boats have...
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