LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Crew of the New Arranmore Lifeboat
The crew of the new Arranmore lifeboat were able to demonstrate their skills to a large crowd at Killybegs, Co Donegal, during the town's festival last summer. An air-sea rescue display was staged involving a simulated trawler fire,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Member of Committee of Management
LORD KILLANIN has been co-opted as a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution. He had extensive journalistic experience before the last war, and during the war he served as an officer of the Queen's Westminsters. He is a...
Category: Committee
Ex-Coxswain John W. Bushell, of Blyth
Coxswain John William Bushell, of Blyth, who died on 24th September, at the age of 61, was for nearly twenty- four years the coxswain of the Blyth life-boat, and before that had been its second coxswain for two years. He won, by his...
Category: Obituaries
A Dramatic View of Three Sisters Seconds Before She Sank. Crew Member Frank Home's White Helmet Can Be See In the Centre of the Group In the Sea As the Navy Inflatable Closes I
A dramatic view of Three Sisters seconds before she sank. Crew member Frank Home's white helmet can be see in the centre of the group in the sea as the Navy inflatable closes in to pick them up. Photo RAF Valley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.
They...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...
Category: Services
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE IST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER,...
Category: Articles
In This Issue
News All the latest from and about the RNLI Letters 8 Quality training for quality crew 10 Got a £ 1.8M lifeboat? You want a qualification to drive it! The RNLI's new competence-based training gives recognised qualifications to...
Category: Contents
Silver Line and Star of Hope
NOVEMBER 28TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. At seven in the morning the Staithes fishing fleet put to sea in moderate weather, but by ten o’clock a gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and at 10.15 the motor life-boat Robert Patton - The...
Rescue of Five Boys and a Girl
MR. MICHAEL WILSON, a second officer on leave from the Merchant Navy, who went out as a member of the Tenby life-boat crew, has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of five boys and a girl on 27th...
Category: Services