LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Montrose
The Charles Dibdin Life-boat was launched during an exceptionally heavy W.S.W. gale, on the 28th December, in answer to signals of distress from the South Goodwin Light- vessel, considerable difficulty being experienced, owing to the...
Blacktail
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 9.30 on the night of the 9th Decem- ber, 1961, the coxswain received a message from a director of the Boston Sea Fishing Company that the skipper of their trawler Blacktail had...
The Schoolboys' Own Exhibition
THE Institution took a small stall at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held during the first week of January. On the opening day it also had the use of a stall called King Arthur's Table, which was given, without charge, to a...
Category: Articles
An Inland School and the Life-Boats
THE District Organizing Secretary in the Midlands recently visited the school at Alderwasley, in Derbyshire, to present a certificate won by a pupil of the school in this year's essay competition ; it is a remote village of a few hundred...
Category: Articles
Day Dream, of Dundee.
A Fine Service by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat.
A VEKY fine service was performed by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat on the llth April, 1919, when she rescued six pilots from the pilot cutter Day Dream, of Dundee....
Voyage of the Motor Life-Boat "Joseph Adlam" from Cowes to Blyth
By Commander E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
WE left Cowes just before 7 A.M. of the 4th October. I had with me the Blyth Coxswain and three men, the Blyth Motor Mechanic, the...
Category: Articles
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans Unveiled for First Time
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans unveiled for first time Coxswain Richard Evans BEM of Moelf re is the subject of an RNLI-commissioned portrait which is to hang in a meeting room at Poole Headquarters.
The artist of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Stamp Club
THE Life-boat Stamp Club, which was started at the end of 1933 by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Qommon, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch of the Institution, now has a branch of its own at Cromer. This branch...
Category: Articles
Naming the Life-Boat
IN previous issues of this Journal * the building and testing of a Life-boat have been described, and it is proposed in this and ensuing articles to give some account of the further life history of the boat.
The boat being...
Category: Articles
Rescue on the Bar
MR. SIDNEY HOOK, a local pilot and member of the inshore rescue scheme at Teignmouth, Devon, has been awarded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum, and Mr. Samuel G. Hook and Mr. James P. Boyne have been presented with vellum...
Category: Services