LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards
A New Royal Decoration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
A NOTIFICATION appeared in the Gazette of the 13th March last, stating that the Queen had been pleased, by warrant under the royal sign-manual, to institute a new decoration, to be styled the Albert Medal, to be awarded in cases where it...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1955
Persons Time of rescuedfrom 1955. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 3. 4.35 p.m. Fishing boats, of Pittenween. Anstruther life-boat escorted boats.
,, 3. 8.10 p.m. M.F.V. No. 51, of...
Category: Services
Vellum for American Airman
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presents the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to Major Paul L. Park. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifty Medals for Gallantry
On the 23rd January, 1939, seven members of the crew of eight of the St. Ives life-boat were lost when the boat capsized while on service to an unknown vessel.
COXSWAIN THOMAS COCKING was posthumously awarded the bronze...
Category: Articles
Annual Awards
The RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards was held in London’s Barbican Centre on 22 May with guest of honour HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. She presented the RNLI’s Silver Medal for Gallantry to Torbay Coxswain Mark Criddle for his part in...
Category: Articles
Classifieds
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Monitor UV temperature, wind, rain, barametric pressure, humidity and more. Quick-view...
Category: Advertisement
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of life from Shipwreck.
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Category: Advertisement
The Sailor Boy
HE rose at dawn, and, flushed with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reached the ship and caught the rope, And whistled to the morning star.
And while on deck he whistled loud, He heard a fierce mermaiden...
Category: Poetry
Six Medals for Gallantry
Six Medals for Gallantry WEST KIRBY, CHESHIRE On the 6th February, 1943, two men in a small boat were rescued.
MR. BENJAMIN S. ARMITAGE was awarded the bronze medal.
MR. HERBERT JONES, coxswain of the...
Category: Medals