LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
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Channel Islands By Joan Davies
Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...
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Services of the Life-Boats In September, October and November, 1951. 65 Lives Rescued
DURING September life-boats went out on service 68 times and rescued 25 lives.
TWICE AGROUND Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd May, 1872. His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., President of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
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Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1858
Oct. 23, 1857.—A Norwegian barque was seen in distress during stormy weather on Hasboro' Sands. A fishing-lugger's crew picked up, with some difficulty, the ship's crew of 9 men, who had taken to their boat.—Reward,...
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The S.S. Asse (1)
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumber- land.—17th October, 1939. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched. A warning of an air-raid had been...
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tke figures rtfcr to the numbers of the Life-boats dttailtd an pages 336-347. )j Aberdovey, Merioneth, 166. IDroKheda, Ireland, 261. Llttlehaven, Pembroke, 169. Rhyl, Flint, 184. Abersoch,...
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An Irish Gold Medal.
The second gold medal to be awarded for conspicuous gallantry since the outbreak of war, has been won by Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the north west of Ireland. For the same service the motor mechanic was awarded the silver medal...
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Laura and Prospector
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—Early in the afternoon of the 9th January, 1939, a man reported that his son and two other men who had gone out in the motor fishing boat Laura to shoot cod lines had not returned when expected.
Strong...
Auto Endurance
Richard and Nicola Jeyes (below right) completed an Auto Endurance Challenge in June, which raised over £1,000 for Callington branch RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs