LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
War Honours
IT is with great satisfaction that we record the fact that two old employees of the Institution have received distinction for good work in the field.
LIEUTENANT H. G. SPARY, who was a clerk in the Midland District Office,...
Category: Awards
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty Kiso EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
Sus
.— During a whole S.E. gale with a heavy sea on 22nd November the yacht Sus, of Cowes, with three men on board, got into distress about eight miles W.S.W. of Rame Head. Her signals were seen by found that she had badly damaged her bows....
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Category: Advertisement
A Pontoon
Exmouth, Devon - At 4.11 p.m. on 3rd May, 1967, it was learned that the skipper and six men aboard a pontoon laying a new sewer outfall at Dawlish Warren were marooned. The motor boat, which normally serviced the pontoon, was unable to make...
Sweet William By Rosemary Whitten
A MARATHON 278-MILE DONKEY TROT FROM ST IVES TO LONDON 'Hey, what's that Freisian donkey doing staked out on your grass?' The cheerful farmer's voice stopped the conversation in the comfortable bar of The White Hart,...
Category: Articles
A. Andess
ENGINE FAILED At 5.50 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the harbour pilots informed the coxswain that the cabin cruiser A. Andess had radioed for assistance from a position 2| miles north of Hartlepool. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a...
Brakesea
At 3.45 A.M.
on the llth December, while a whole south-westerly gale was raging, inform- ation was received from the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress about seven miles to the south- eastward of...
Schooner Teazer, of Ipswich
During a terrific gale of wind, on the night of the 8th of January, the look-out-man at Stonehouse Point observed signals of distress from Mount Batten. The Prince Consort life- boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the bay. Owing to...