LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Koo-She
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...
A Life-Boat Crew Bombed.
On 24th. August, the Ramsgate station bad to be closed. Ramsgate was bombed from the air that day, and the whole life-boat crew of nine took shelter in a cellar near the harbour. A bomb burst just outside, and six of the nine were wounded....
Category: Articles
Postman Pat Picks Lottery Prize Winners
Local schoolchildren present Postman Pat and Miss Hubbard with a present for Jess at the National Lottery Draw. Photo Poole Advertiser. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ard Crona
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th November, 1961, a man living in Burtonport told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had grounded in Arran roads.
The life-boat W. M. Tilson left her moorings...
A Day's Leave Collecting
A NAVAL seaman was on leave in Staines for a day. It happened to be the flag- day for the Life-boat Service. He spent it collecting and got over six pounds..
Category: Donations
Presentation of a Gold Medal
THE Gold Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is a much- coveted distinction, only bestowed for deeds of exceptional valour, was awarded in April to the REVEREND JOHN M. O'SHEA, parish priest of Ardmore, Co. Waterford...
Category: Medals
Weston-Super-Mare: the Cave on the South Side of Brean Down from Which Three Trapped Boys Were Rescued on November 12; on That Day a Full Southerly Gale Was B
Weston-super-Mare: The cave on the south side of Brean Down from which three trapped boys were rescued on November 12; on that day a full southerly gale was blowing and there was a rough sea with breaking surf. For this service the thanks of... - View image in PDF
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2: Receive from Her Crew a Heaving Line to Bring Wire Through Ruffle Hole In Boat's Forefoot
2: Receive From Her Crew A Heaving Line To Bring Wire Through Ruffle Hole In Boat's Forefoot. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yacht Coo
— At 8.35 A.M. on the 12th March a telegram was received from Milford - on - Sea, stating that a small vessel was labour- ing heavily in a dismasted condition, and displaying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Robert Fleming were...
Our Life-Boat Work
IF we could always have OUR own way in this world, we would doubtless make all work easy, all work pleasant, all work safe; we would fain do good to others, not only without risk of injury to our- selves, "but even without serious...
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