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Torbay

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

TORBAY, DEVON On the 17th December, 1944, the Torbay life-boat rescued the crew of fourteen of the tug Empire Alfred, and the crew of five of yard craft 345.

COXSWAIN FREDERICK C. SANDERS was awarded the silver...

Category: Medals

Bar (1)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

APRIL 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX, AND WALMER, KENT. The French trawler Bar had gone ashore near Beachy Head, but she refloated without help, and the Newhaven life-boat returned to her station. The trawler had been reported to Walmer as ashore...

Bronze Medal. for Wick Coxswain.

Date: December 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 10

Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...

Category: Articles

45 Years -- Still Singing

Date: September 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 17

Mr. J. W. Kelly, of Peel, in the Isle of Man, has now sung the solo in the hymn "The Life-boat" at the annual Life-boat Sunday Service at Peel every year for 45 years. Mr. Brian Leadley, who ha* been H.M. coastguard at Peel for 23...

Category: Articles

Stone, steel and lifeboats

Date: Summer 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 608 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2014

Our All-weather Lifeboat Centre (ALC) in Poole, Dorset, is really taking shape, and the project team are on target to open the doors for lifeboat maintenance in January 2015. The ALC will go on to build six all-weather lifeboats a year,...

Category: Articles

None (29)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

AUG. 31ST. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

A cry for help had been heard by three boys from the Lydstep Caves. The motor life-boat was launched, and a coastguard search party went by car along the top of the cliff, and got down it...

Foreign Life-Boat Services. II

Date: February 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 305

The United States (State Service.

Established 1848).

Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....

Category: Services

SIS

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...

SIS (1)

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...

In Memoriam. Admiral John Ross Ward

Date: August 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 157

BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...

Category: Obituaries