LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Master and commander
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th January, 1886.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1933
BELOW will be found particulars of the services of foreign life-boat societies to British vessels during 1933 and the present figures of their fleets.
Denmark.
The Danish life-boat service did not go out...
Category: Services
Liberty
Wells, Norfolk.—On the afternoon of the 7th February it was known that one of three local fishing boats which had put out to sea had not returned.
She was the motor boat Liberty, with a crew of three. A strong easterly...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS PATTON, on his retirement, alter serving for 27J years as Coxswain of the Portrush Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension.
To MATTHEW GRUNNILL, on his retirement, after serving for 23J...
Category: Awards
Thomas Stratton & George Royle
On the night of the 18th January signals of distress were seen in the vicinity of the Shering- ham Shoal, and the Life-boat Louisa Heart-well was launched as soon as her crew could be assembled. A very heavy sea was running, and...
Mount Ida and Vera Creina
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...
People and Places
Awards to coxswains, creiv members and shore helpers The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 1998. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations...
Category: Articles
TIME, TALENT AND SUPPORT
No less than 74 people took to the stage to accept honorary awards at the afternoon ceremony. ‘They all give generously of their time – some as station personnel, others as officials and members of branches and guilds,’ said Paul...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 119. Lives rescued 86.
April Meeting.
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on Aran Island...
Category: Services