LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To the Help of Two Rafts
Coxswain J. McLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire has won the bronze medal for gallantry in rescuing two exhausted men from a ship's raft when it was within two hundred yards of the rocks in a heavy sea. The life-boat then went to another...
Category: Articles
Star of Hope
WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.
A strong gale was blowing...
The Duchess of Kent at Plymouth and Padstow
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations
Notes on the Quarter
TWENTY-ONE nations were represented at the llth international life-boat conference, which was held in New York City from 16th to 20th May, newcomers to the conference being the Bahamas, the Philippines, and South...
Category: Articles
Shipwreck Off St. Andrew's
ABOUT noon on Sunday the 23rd Oct., during one of the most severe and protracted gales that have occurred on the east coast of Scotland for years, a brig was observed about five miles out standing across St. Andrew's Bay for the...
Category: Services
A Picture of the Mudeford Ilb Returning With a 'survivor' on the Occasion of the Official Opening of the Ilb House on Mudeford Quay the Ilb House Was Built With Funds Do
by courtesy of S. M. Wheatley A picture of the Mudeford ILB returning with a 'survivor' on the occasion of the official opening of the ILB house on Mudeford quay. The ILB house was built with funds donated by Christchurch Round Table... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Anne Armstrong United States Ambassador Was Guest of Honour at the Reception at the Mansion House In the City of London on December I Which Launched the Ame
Mrs Anne Armstrong, United States Ambassador, was guest of honour at the reception at the Mansion House in the City of London on December I which launched the American! British lifeboat appeal. With her are seen (r. to I.) the Lord Mayor and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifE belt are Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Perth.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 19th May, the chair being taken by the Rev. P. R. Landreth, the Chairman of Committee. The Report showed that for the nine months ending the 30th Septem- ber, 1919, the-Branch had...
Category: Branches
Coxswain George Stonall of New Brighton Receives the Bronze Medal from H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent
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Category: Photographs