LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards for "Calculated Courage"
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been awarded to seven men who put out in the Portrush life-boat to search for survivors from a Norwegian frigate on ist November, 1965.
At 9.16 that morning Mr. W. R....
Category: Services
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FEBRUARY 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A very heavy explosion had been heard five to six miles E.S.E. of Aldeburgh.
The life-boat found a large patch of oil or coal dust and followed it for two miles, but...
A Fishing Vessel (1)
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Back Row: Coxswain James Watkins, of Angle; Coxswain William Peters, of St. Ives; Coxswain John Murt, of Padstow; and Robert Harland, of Whitby Etc
Back Row: Coxswain James Watkins of Angle; Coxswain William Peters of St Ives; Coxswain John Murt of Padstow; and Robert Harland of Whitby Et Al. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Fever
Sjng I e h anded_saNor towed to safety Along and arduous service in gale force winds, heavy seas and wintery conditions in April 1998 has earned Paul Martin, the Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat the RNLI's Thanks on...
Letters
WHEN I WAS FOUR...
0 My first contribution to the R.N.L.I, was made at the age of approximately 4 years in 1897, this being on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. There was a procession through the town...
Category: Correspondence
The Wrecked Barge Glenrosa, With Her Skipper
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Category: Photographs
A Yacht
Family of five saved in rough seas Criccieth lifeboat was alerted on 16 August following a call to Holyhead Coastguard from a family caught in heavy weather aboard their yacht just south of Criccieth Castle.Coastguards paged Criccieth...
Gunhild
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At about 5.30 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, the No. 1 man at the Gyleen coast lifesaving station telephoned that a large steamer was near a very dangerous shoal of rocks and appeared to be trying to get clear. A...
Cairnduna
In the forenoon of the 9th March, the schooner Cairnduna, of Thurso, bound from Dundee to Sunder- land, was driven ashore on the strand below Bamborough Castle, about five miles from the Life-boat Station at North Sim- derland. The Life-boat...