LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pensions
On the closing of the St. Andrews life-boat station the following awards have been made: DAVID FENTON, 8 years coxswain, 9f years bowman and 22J vears a member of the crew, the COXSYVAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a...
Category: Awards
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th July, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Passed the following resolution :— " The Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION,...
Category: Committee
A Speed Boat
New recruits in at the deep end It was Gary Roberts' first ever lifeboat service and Dwynwen Parry was only nine months into her probationary period, but under the wing of Helmsman David Jones, they helped to save a family of four from...
Coxswain Albert Bird (R) Aberdeen Entertains Skipper John Thomas Former Assistant Mechanic at Dungeness and the Man Who Saved His Life When Dungeness Lifeboat R
Coxswain Albert Bird (r.), Aberdeen, entertains Skipper John Thomas, former assistant mechanic at Dungeness and the man who saved his life when Dungeness lifeboat rescued six men from Teeswood in the great Channel gale of 1956; a service for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Airbed
Airbed A BOY AND A GIRL being blown out to sea on an airbed off Ardrossan were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1525 on Tuesday June 21. Five minutes later Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat...
February
Launches 61 Lives rescued 72
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PALLING.—A new 12-oared life-boat has been placed at Palling, on the Norfolk Coast, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in lieu of a smaller one previously there.
The cost of this boat and her carriage, together with a...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches. 110. Lives rescued 113.
April Meeting.
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford On the evening of the 5th February the s.s. Elsie Annie, of Wexford, ran aground on the North Dogger bank, N.W. of...
Category: Services
Listings
Olive Laura Deare Mrs Olive Deare A naming ceremony for the E class lifeboat at Gravesend station, on the Thames, took place on Saturday, 26 April at the Fort Gardens. The O Ve Laura Deare is the first E class lifeboat to be improved and...
Category: Articles
Abstract of the Wreck Register for 1876-77
TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—On the 13th April, at about 7 A.M., the brigantine Cygnet, bound from Silloth to Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore in Dandrum Bay during a strong S.E. gate.
The Memorial Life-boat put off...
Category: Articles