LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1906) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
Category: Awards
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1865
A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
Category: Articles
Thurso
THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE On the 8th February, 1944, the Thurso life-boat recovered five bodies and rescued two of the crew of the S.S. Freidig, of Norway.
COXSWAIN JOHN MACLEOD was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Mabel E Holland In the Ice During Her Four-Year Round-The-World Voyage
Mabel E. Holland in the ice during her four-year round-the-world voyage.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Troon
TROON, AYRSHIRE On the 6th December, 1940, the Troon life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the S.S. Moyallon, of Belfast.
COXSWAIN WILLLIAM McAUSLANE was awarded the silver medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC ALBERT J....
Category: Medals
News from the Branches
1st July to 30th September.
Leaflets {or the Help of Honorary Secretaries and Collectors.
WE think that our Honorary Workers will like to have the following list of the leaflets (which have just been...
Category: Branches
The Passage of the Motor Life-Boat "Dunleary" from Cowes to Kingstown
By Commander STOPFORD C. DOUGLAS, R.N., Inspector for the Irish District.
THE passage of this boat from Cowes to Kingstown gave her a. test to which Life-boats are not often subjected.
Many'encounter...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1874-75
THE wreck statistics of the twelve months ending in June, 1875, certainly record the most numerous casualties that have hitherto taken place in one year. The officers of H.M. Coastguard and Board of Trade have left not a single shipping ac-...
Category: Articles
Eros and the Escort Vessel Challenger
NOVEMBER 3RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that a wireless call for help had been received by way of the R.A.F. Station at Rosehearty. The life-boat crew were assembled and...
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (1)
On the 17th-18th June, 1939, the Cloughey life-boat rescued a salvage party of eleven men from the S.S. Arantzazu-Mendi, of Bilbao.
COXSWAIN ROBERT YOUNG was awarded the silver medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC...
Category: Articles