LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal Service at Torbay
EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...
Category: Services
Silver Jubilee Fleet Review
SPITHEAD, TUESDAY, JUNE 28: When her Majesty The Queen, aboard HMY Britannia, reviewed the Fleet as part of the celebrations marking her Silver Jubilee, three lifeboats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution were proud to take their...
Category: Articles
August (1)
AUGUST MEETING LANNERCOMBE, SALCOMBE, DEVON. About 7.30 in the evening of the 9th July, 1940, the Latvian steamer Talvaldis was attacked by enemy aeroplanes off Start Point. The weather was moderate. The Salcombe motor life-boat was called...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 12 1980: 1,215 people rescued; nearly £12 million raisedTUESDAY MAY 12 was the day of the RNLI's 1981 annual general meeting of the governors and annual presentation of awards and, as usual...
Category: Meetings
Tahi-Tahi
A flare for rescue in darknessWalmer lifeboat crew proved they are ready for anything 24/7 when they were paged at 2 o'clock one morning in mid-winter. The lives of two yachtsmen depended on the crew being wide awake and alert throughout...
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Fraser, V.D., R.A.M.C. (T.), Honorary Secretary at Berwick-On-Tweed
BY the death of Dr. C. L. Fraser, of Berwick-on-Tweed, at the end of March, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most valued Station Honorary Secretaries. Dr. Fraser, who was a native of Montrose and was sixty-seven years old, had...
Category: Obituaries
Locative
Tyne and helicopter work together to rescue four in heavy swell and gale The skill and determination of Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell, of Arranmore's Tyne class lifeboat William Luckin , during a difficult eighthour service...
Lifeboat Services
Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crews Thurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident...
Category: Services
Coxswain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer
BY winning a second-service clasp to his silver medal for the rescue of the two men from the barge Sepoy, as described on page 197, Coxswain Henry G. Blogg has equalled a record which has stood in the history of the Institution for...
Category: Articles
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Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...