LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
Poole, Dorset. At 7.40 on the even- ing of the 2nd of January, 1959, the police at Wareham told the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had left Wareham at three o'clock in the afternoon and had not returned. The crew consisted of a father...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the LORD MAYOR of London, on Thursday, the 28th of February, 1867, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.,...
Category: Annual Reports
The Walmer Life-Boat Standing By the East Goodwin Lightvessel In 1961 When She Broke Adrift In Severe Weather. the Picture Was Taken Next Day After the Life-Boat Had Been Out In the Worst Condit
The Walmer life-boat standing by the East Goodwin lightvessel in 1961 when she broke adrift in severe weather. The picture was taken next day after the life-boat had been out in the worst conditions the crew could remember.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th January, 1908.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Silver Medal for Irish Coxswain
FOR an outstanding service following a call to a ten-year-old boy who was seriously ill Coxswain Philip Byrne of Arranmore has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry.
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th November,...
Category: Medals
Tonnage Admeasurement (Continued)
IN the article on this subject in oar last number we stated that nine out of the twelve members of the Royal Commission on Tonnage were unanimous in their recommendations; that three of their number objected to sign the Report, viz., Messrs....
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1908
Jan. 9.—Voted the Silver Medal to FREDK. CHARLES HICKS, who by swimming saved, at imminent risk of his own life, the Captain of the schooner Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, who had been washed on to the Helwether rook after the vessel was...
Category: Articles
The Portuguese Brigantine Boa Nova and The English Schooner Britannia
On the 13th February the Holyhead life-boat performed a valuable service by proceeding to the Portuguese brigantine Boa Nova, and the English schooner Britannia, during a strong gale from W.N.W., and putting pilots on board them, by which...
Dr. Joseph Soar M.B.E
The death is also announced of Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., who was honorary secretary at St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, from 1926 to 1963. In 1943 he received the bronze medal of the Institution for the part he played in the...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boatmen on the Air. Coxswain's Talks and An Empire Broadcast
AFTEK their busiest winter on the seas for twenty years, life-boatmen have been very busy during the past year on the air. There have been nine broadcasts in which English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh coxswains have taken...
Category: Articles