LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premier
Eight-hour service for Lerwick's Arun in appalling conditions Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian spent nearly eight hours at sea in hurricane-force winds and huge seas on 12 December 1990 in what proved to be a tragically...
Awards
Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1954
Persons Time of rescued from 1954. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 6. 2.0 p.m. Fishing coble Provider. Flamborough life-boat escorted boat.
„ 6. 4.0 p.m. Fishing boats Betty...
Category: Services
The Self-Righting Life-Boat
THE award of the prize of £600 and a gold medal made by her Majesty's Commis- sioners of the INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION for the " best full-sized Life-Boat, fully equipped,...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
The Story of the Filey Lifeboats The Story of the Buckie Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author, prices and availability in text Two more new editions of Jeff Morris's authoritative lifeboat station histories, each brought...
Category: Articles
Colleagues from the Sky By Georgette Purches
Following a recent visit to the West Country, Georgette Purches, assistant public relations officer for the RNLI, explains the organisation behind the RAF and Royal Navy helicopter rescue services. She was also in the right place at the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...
Category: Articles
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RSPCA Bronze medal for lifeboatmen Nine crew members of West Kirby's D class inflatable lifeboat, the deputy launching authority and the station honorary secretary have been awarded the RSPCA's Bronze medal for rescuing two horses...
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Alice of Bremen
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the Holy head coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Alice of Bremen, which had broken down and had been towed to Moelfre Bay by a pilot boat, was dragging...