LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The calm before the storm
‘There was peace and quiet ... that can change within seconds when the pager goes off.'
That contrast was the inspiration behind this prize-winning photo by RNLI Crew Member Neville Murphy....
Category: Articles
Coxswain James Campbell
Coxswain James Campbell of Boul- mer died on the 18th of May, 1959, at the age of 79. He first joined the Boulmer crew in 1906, was bowman for nearly a year in 1929, and was then second coxswain for ten years. He was coxswain from 1939 to...
Category: Obituaries
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea. The crew of three were seen clinging to...
Category: Services
The Wood for the Trees
The air is heavy with the unmistakable smell of sawn timber and Stockholm tar and jangles gently to the sound of a distant bandsaw as I watch a boatbuilder ease a plank into place around the gaunt frames of an 18ft launch under construction....
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was in distress about three miles 8. of Mang- hold Head, during a S.E. wind on the 5th Oct. 1886, the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched at about 8.30 A.M., and was towed...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat...
Category: Services
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1905, the Life-Saving Establishment of the United States comprised 277 stations, an increase of 4 stations as compared with the previous year, and the whole of these stations...
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Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.
Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...
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Ballycotton
BALLYCOTTON. CO. CORK On the 23rd December, 1942, the Ballycotton life-boat rescued the crew of thirty-five of the S.S. Irish Ash, of Dublin.
COXSWAIN PATRICK SLINEY was awarded the silver medal.
SECOND...
Category: Medals
Padstow
PADSTOW, CORNWALL On the 23rd November, 1944, the Padstow life-boat rescued seven of the crew of the S.S. Sjofna, of Norway., SECOND MOTOR MECHANIC WILLIAM ORCHARD, acting as coxswain, was awarded the silver medal.
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Category: Medals