LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In 1951
THERE were fewer launches of life- boats in 1951 than in 1950, and fewer lives were rescued, but it was a year of outstanding gallantry, and more than twice as many medals were won, two silver and eight bronze. They were won by coxswains,...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1910
Jan. 13.—Five men put off in a boat for the purpose of saving the crew of the smack Margaret Ann, of Fishguard, which stranded in a moderate W.N.W. gale and rough sea, off Bumham, on the 1st December, 1909.—Reward, 11. 10s. Also 18s. to...
Category: Articles
List of Successes In the Essay Competition
London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).
Name.
Age.
School.
William Bennett Freda Shine Thomas Gover .
Maureen Conway John...
Category: Articles
Ten-Year-Old Peter Jensen of Highgate Sent £907 Collected With His Splendid Guy to Hornsey Branch the Rnli He Said In His Letter Is His Favourite Charity Photograph By
Ten-year-old Peter Jensen of Highgate sent £9.07, collected with his splendid guy, to Hornsey branch. The RNLI, he said in his letter, is his favourite charity. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Andrew Franks.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ain Mara
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7 a.m.
on i8th August, 1965, a yacht was reported ashore at Sgeir Cailleach. At 7.15 the lifeboat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was launched with the second coxswain in charge, in a south-westerly gale...
Bun Brosna
Galway Bay. At 10.15 a-m- on 3fd September, 1965, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in distress half a mile south of North Aran lighthouse. There was a strong north-westerly breeze with a rough sea. The...
Life-Boat Prospects In the Baltic
IN the July Number of the Life-Boat Journal for 1852, will be found a brief account of the Foreign Life-boat Stations on the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark; we are gratified to learn from a recent traveller, that there is a...
Category: Correspondence
Pigeons Are Helping the RNLI for In July the Northern Centres Charity Championship—A 400-Mile Race from Rennes France—Was Held In Aid of the Life-Boat Service
Pigeons are helping the R.N.L.I. For in July the Northern Centres Charity Championship—a 400-mile race from Rennes, France—was held in aid of the life-boat service. Mr. Brian Whittle, of Ashton-in- Makerfield, secretary of the Western Centre... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boat Handling In Storm Force Winds
At the annual presentation of awards last May Coxswain William Jones of Holyhead and Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth both received silver medals for gallantry and Second Coxswain Keith Bower a gold medal; all were for services...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat Services In December, January and February
During December, 19-17, life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 24 lives.
NO PETROL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 2nd of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small...
Category: Services