LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
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SEPTEMBER 5TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK. The honorary secretary heard a shout for help from a man swimming a long way from the shore in heavy breakers, and the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched at 1.27 P.M. When she reached the...
List of the Services of the Lift-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 188
List of the Services of the Lift-boats of the Royal National Life boat Institution during the year 1881.
Lives Saved Agnes, schooner, of Llanelly .... 5 Albion, schooner, of Southampton 4 Aldebaran, schooner, of Lanrvig...
Category: Services
The Admiralty Motor Launch 1054
OCTOBER 11TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 7.20 in the evening the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen by the post of the Royal Observer Corps.
The motor life-boat The Princess Royal - Civil...
Lifeboat Services
East Division Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going...
Category: Services
The Prince of Wales and the Eastbourne Crew
June 30th, 1931, on the occasion of the Prince's visit to Eastbourne to lay the foundation stone of the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital. With the Prince are (left to right) Mr. Norman S. Holland, Chairman, Mrs. Astley Roberts, President... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sail
Sail
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
American best-selling author James Patterson has teamed up for the second time with fellow countryman and writer...
Category: Articles
French Medals for Cromer
IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...
Category: Medals
Faster Stronger Better
In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?
The Mersey class lifeboat...
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Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY MAY 16 TRIUMPH IN THE FACE OF A MOST TESTING WINTER 'GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME . . .' The annual general meeting of governors of the RNLI, held this year for the first time in the Purcell Room of the...
Category: Meetings