LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gudveig of Oslo (2)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
Libra
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 1st of February, 1957, a message was received from Ballydavid that six men who were freeing the anchor chain of their motor vessel Libra had been blown ashore in their ship's boat and...
And Farewell
. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adelaide
This life-boat, which is named the Princess of Wales, went off twice and rendered valuable assistance to the barque Adelaide, of Pernambuco, bound thence from Liverpool with a cargo of cotton, which was in a very dangerous posi- tion near...
Mike Bartley (Left) and His Wife Shirley-Ann Being Presented With Their Cheque for £2000 - the Top Prize In the Rnli's Summer Draw By Gemma Craven (Right)
Mike Bartley (left) and his wife Shirley-Ann being presented with their cheque for £2,000 - the top prize in the RNLI's summer draw - by Gemma Craven (right).
The Institution's Head of Fund Raising Anthony... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sardinia
SEPT. 27TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
At 1.30 A.M. the Kirkwall coastguard reported that a Norwegian steamer was ashore at Burness, Sanday, nearly fifty miles away.
The weather was fine, with a light N.E....
Delila (1)
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST [OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1908) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal life-saving.
Category: Awards
Volga
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At three o'clock on the morning of the 14th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Volga was making water seven miles west-by-north of Porth- dinllaen Point....
Gleaner
Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.57 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht had run ashore with the ebb tide on the Dike shoal off Ramsgate. At 6.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...