LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emperor of the French—His Rewards to British Seamen for Saving Life
COUNT WALEWSKI, late French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, has obligingly forwarded to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution the following list of British seamen, to whom the Emperor of the French has, by imperial decrees,...
Category: Medals
The Women of Holy Island. A Fine Launch and a Silver Medal Service
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...
Category: Medals
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
An Earlier Photograph of Eric Seal In Eyemouth Illustrates the Difficult Narrow Entrance to the Port.
An earlier photograph of Eric Seal in Eyemouth illustrates the difficult and narrow entrance to the port.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Georgia and the S.S. St. Helena
Ramsgate, Kent.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 8th of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned to say that the Panamanian tanker Georgia had been in collision with the S.S. St.
Helena in fog 23 miles...
An Aeroplane (1)
23rd April.
An aeroplane fell into the sea, but the services of the life-boat were not required.—Rewards, £6 6s. (See also Shoreboat Services, page 115.).
An American Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 28TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
An American Liberator aeroplane had crashed in the darkness and caught fire, but she was right under the cliffs, and the life-boat could not get nearer than 300...
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 30TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
At 3.45 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer at Appledore, that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between the Bar and Haire Point off Saunton Sands, and the motor...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Service to Yacht Aground Off Weymouth Pier
Mr. Donald Laker, a member of the Weymouth life-boat crew who went overboard to swim to a yacht with a line, has been awarded the bronze medal for gallantry. The thanks of the Institution on vellum have been accorded collectively to the...
Category: Services