LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Leslie Crowther (I) and Robert Keegan Were Two of the Guests at the Rnli Gala at Ashburton Park on July 3 Which Was Also Attended By the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress
Leslie Crowther (I.) and Robert Keegan were two of the guests at the RNLI gala at Ashburton Park on July 3, which was also attended by the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Croydon. During the afternoon, opened by Leslie Crowther, more than 5,000... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saved By Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation
The mechanic of the Hastings life-boat, Mr. J. H. Martin, and Police Sergeant S. Ferguson of Hastings have both received framed letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for...
Category: Articles
Waiting for Rescue By J D Sleightholme
This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Awards to Honorary Workers.1 DURING February and March the following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in re- cognition of their services in the cause of the Institution :—• To Captain...
Category: Branches
Three Examples of Practical Gratitude
ON 3rd October, 1923, in a whole N.N.W. gale with a terrific sea, the trawlers of Brixham, were in danger in the harbour from a steamer, the Tuscarora, of Sunderland, which had come into collision with another steamer, the Torvald, of Sweden...
Category: Articles
Right: the Dedication Service of the Lord Southborough
Right: The dedication service of The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No 1) at Margate. She was the the 18th lifeboat purchased by the fund but retained the title Civil Service No 1. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
The S.S. Helena Modjeska, of New Orleans
SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.8 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard telephoned that a ship was in danger of going aground on the Goodwins. A light south-east wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...
The Patrol Boat Havoernen of the Royal Danish Navy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...
Henrietta, of Memel
One of the most gal- lant Life-boat services ever rendered on the Scotch coast was performed by the Montrose Life-boats on the 21st Decem- ber, it being attended with the greatest risk to some of the brave Life-boat men.
It...
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, March 2, 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the former Meeting, and those of the Finance, Wreck and Reward, and the Life-boat Sub-Committees.
Elected...
Category: Committee