LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, AND TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS OR OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31st DECEMBER, 1863.
Jan. 1.—The Braunton (North Devon) life-boat put off and rescued, during a gale...
Category: Articles
Richard and Harriet, of Hull
One other service has also been per- formed by the Kingsdowne Life-boat this year, on the llth February. It appears that during the previous night it had been blowing a gale, and at daylight during a strong breeze from the...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
A Gallant Rescue of Bathers
ON the evening of 21st June, 1938, two women bathers at Bettystown, Co.
Meath, Eire, were swept seaward on a rubber mattress by a strong offshore wind. The sea was choppy. Several men went at once to their rescue....
Category: Articles
A Beautifully Written Letter from Susan Crook Brought the News That the Children Oj Beach Road Country Primary School Litherland Liverpool Seen Here With Brian Ste
A beautifully written letter from Susan Crook brought the news that the children oj Beach Road Country Primary School, Litherland, Liverpool, seen here with Brian Stevenson, ADOS(NW). had beaten the target they had set themselves to reach by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Try, I'll Try and Baden Powell
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—At 8.16 on the morning of 12th of June, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard rang up the Great Yar- mouth and Gorleston life-boat station to say that a shrimp boat had broken down off the harbour...
EVACUATION IN FORCE 8 GALE
CLIFDEN | 15 NOVEMBER
When a woman from Inishbofin Island suffered severe abdominal pain, she needed to reach medical help fast. Clifden RNLI volunteers responded in the early hours of the morning, launching into a force 8 gale, a...
Category: Services
The Advent of the Motor-Boat
THIS year has been one of exceptional interest with regard to the development of Marine Motors, and it will be satis- factory to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to know that the subject of placing motors in...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXIX. TRAMORE.—The Alfred Trower, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.
IT may not be out of place to preface this article with a description of the old and interesting city of Waterford, which is in close proximity to Tramore, and...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
Address at the Annual Meeting.
MR. CHAIRMAN, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, although this is the first time that I have spoken at your Annual Meeting, I am by no means unfamiliar with the work of the life-boat...
Category: Meetings