LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Brooch Bars for Medallists
BROOCH bars for winners of the medals awarded by the Institution have recently been introduced and are now issued to all medallists. The bars are covered with the Institution's medal ribbon, which is light blue in colour, and are 1| in....
Category: Medals
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To H. W. JEFFERSON, Mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, in recognition of his intrepid conduct when the Life-boat caught fire, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and a monetary grant.
To REGINALD...
Category: Awards
Landing the Rescued from the Spanish Steamer Monte Gurugu
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Category: Photographs
Morning Star
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.30 early on the morning of the 18th of Decem- ber, 1954, the Formby coastguard reported that a fishing boat had wire- lessed that she was standing by the fishing boat Morning Star, of Rothesay, which had run...
Welcome
‘The cause is individual, national, and universal … The people and vessels of every nation, whether in peace or in war, [are] to be equally objects of this Institution …’
They are the words of Sir William Hillary, who...
Category: Articles
Top: Tubes On
Top: Tubes on. the below-deck area is prepared to receive the console.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Torbay, South Devon. At 8.40 p.m.
on ist August, 1965, the police at Paignton told the second coxswain of the life-boat that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Three Beaches. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped...
H.M. Trawler Flotta and H.M. Trawler Filey Bay
NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.
Four Attempts to Reach Life-Boat
AT 7.15 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat station, Mr. Kieran O'Driscoll, was informed by Valentia Radio that the motor trawler Ros Airgead was aground on White...
Category: Services
(Inset) the Coastguard's Rigid Inflatable, Washed Ashore After Capsizing During the Search.
(Inset) The Coastguard's rigid inflatable, washed ashore after capsizing during the search.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs