LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1932
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition was held this year for the twelfth time. The number of schools taking part in the competition was 2,249, as compared with 2,354 in 1931. The number of schools which took part in...
Category: Articles
Medal for Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...
Category: Medals
Great Rail Journeys
Lake Louise and Sulphur Mountain We take a cable car up Sulphur Mountain for breathtaking mountain views and travel to the beautiful Lake Louise for lunch. You have a free day to explore Banff or if you are feeling adventurous, enjoy a float...
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Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 16 Lives rescued 11 INISHBOFIN, CO. GALWAY. During the morning of the 4th of January, 1943, the Valentia radio received a message that the Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. Later the position was given Inishshark...
Category: Services
Lecture on Life-Boats
Self-righting.—I come now to the explanation of a property which, by comparison, is a novel one, although more than two-thirds of the life-boats in the United Kingdom are now provided with it,— a property the value of which has been disputed...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (1)
Launches 18. Lives Rescued 7.
FEB. 11TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. At 9.55 P.M. a telephone message was received that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the...
Category: Services
Mechanic's medal
‘ He risked his life to get us out’
When two young people found themselves trapped in a cave facing a surging, rising tide, would anyone be able to find them – and get them to safety?
The afternoon of 5...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
DOVER.—A new life-boat and transporting- carriage have been sent to Dover by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the former boat stationed there being considered to be too small, and not to have sufficient rowing power. The new boat is 32...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
PORTMADOC.—On the morning of the 9th of December, 1854, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W. at the time, two large threemasted vessels were observed from Portmadoc to be on shore on the St. Patrick's Causeway, a dangerous shoal of several...
Category: Services
Active, of Cellardyke
On the 19th Sep- tember, the fishing-boat Active, of Cellar- dyke, N.B., was observed in distress during a strong E.N.E. wind and in a heavy sea, off Anstruther. The Admiral FitzRoy life- boat put out and brought the boat and her crew of 4...