LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1858
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Bodmin Lower School (Comprehensive), which is particularly interested in Padstow lifeboat, arranged a sponsored tables contest—the 2 x 2 = 4 kind—in aid of the RNLI just before Christmas. Younger children had to learn tables up to 10 x 12...
Category: Donations
Lizzie Lee
MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At 8 P.M. on the 15th February, while a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.S.E., the Life-boat Heywood was launched, it having been reported that a ship was stranded. On reaching the vessel, which had stranded...
Life-Boat Service Boards to Be Hung In a Church
THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...
Category: Articles
Boville Studioes
CAPITAL SHI: H.M.S. WARSP1TE H.M.S. HOOD H.M.S. DUKE OF YORK Print Size 13" x 9" The might and majesty of Britains 'Senior Service' comes alive in this series of superb signed colour prints by Philip Boville. Produced by...
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Across a Crowded Room: Thoughts on the Annual Presentation of Awards for Gallantry By Alan Neal
THOUGHTS ON THE ANNUAL PRESENTATION OF AWARDS FOR GALLANTRY by Alan Neal Deputy Secretary (Operations Division) 'AH! THERE'S THE RNLI,' exclaimed the coxswain of an East Anglian lifeboat who had travelled to London to receive a...
Category: Awards
Below: the Duke of Atholl a Vice President of the RNLI and Convener Scottish Life-Boat Council Presenting a Certificate of Service to Mr Evan Owens at the Boat Sho
Below: The Duke of Atholl.a vice president of the R.N.L.I. and Convener, Scottish Life-boat Council, presenting a certificate of service to Mr. Evan Owens at the Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launching the Runswick Life-Boat By Women
ON the 12th April, 1901, the fishing cobles belonging to Runswick, a small village on the Yorkshire coast, were afloat when a heavy sea sprung up imperilling their safety. It became evidently a case for the Life-boat, but unfortunately the...
Category: Articles
The Fisher Boy, of Wick
JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...
Lifeboat Small Ads
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