LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Minesweeping Trawler Ethel Taylor
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. In the afternoon the coastguard asked that the life-boat should go to a position one and a half miles S.E. of Tyne Piers, and at 4.58 P.M. the motor lifeboat Westmorland was launched. A light N.W...
Ballycotton
BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK On the 30th January, 1941, the Ballycotton life-boat rescued the eight survivors of the crew of the S.S. Primrose, of Liverpool.
COXSWAIN PATRICK SLINEY was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Eastbourne
EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX On the 20th of March, 1940, the Eastbourne life-boat rescued the captain of the S.S. Barnhill, of London.
LIFE-BOATMAN ALEC F. HUGGETT was awarded the bronze medal.
LIFE-BOATMAN THOMAS...
Category: Medals
Sir Alec Rose, Like the True Sailor He Is, Has Spoken With Reverence of the Power of the Sea: 'No One Knows the Sea, Which Is a Great Leveller That Soon Cuts the Big-Headed Sailor Down to Size. In Th
Sir Alec Rose, like the true sailor he is, has spoken with reverence of the power of the sea: 'No one knows the sea, which is a great leveller that soon cuts the big-headed sailor down to size. In the tremendous gales I have experienced... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SUFFOLK.—At 2.45 P.M.
on the 2nd May, 1901, the Cross Sand Lightship fired signals, which were repeated by the St. Nicholas Lightship, and in response the Life-boat Marie Lane was launched and was towed by the steam-tug...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 17th November, 1922.
The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Rear-Admiral Hector B. Stewart, a Member of the Committee of Management for many years.
Category: Committee
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st April to the 31st December, 1855
February 25.—The ship Simoon, of Liverpool, during foggy weather, struck on a sunken rock in St. Bride's Bay. Six men went off to her assistance in a shore boat, and after some difficulty, from the thickness of the fog, they succeeded in...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda
DECEMBER 21ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At about 3.25 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing coble Hilda, of Scarborough, was in distress. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a...
The Duchess of Gloucester at Ramsgate
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER named the new Ramsgate life-boat Michael and Lily Davis on the llth of June, 1954. A certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of a life- boat station at Ramsgate...
Category: Inaugurations
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler, Braconmoor
Longhope (The Orkneys).
At one in the morning on 5th January, the Aberdeen steam trawler, Braconmoor, outward bound for the fishing grounds, went ashore on TornessPoint, in the Orkneys, three and a half miles from Longhope....