LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OP SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: JAMES ROBSON, 31J years coxswain of the North Sunderland life-boat.
WILLIAM H....
Category: Awards
How Selling Souvenirs and Gifts Buys Lifeboats
THE RNLI has been selling souvenirs for well over half a century. The word 'souvenir' indicates what the main purpose originally was.
Small items which were expected to appeal to visitors to lifeboat houses were put...
Category: Articles
Cowes Week 2010
After last year’s success, the RNLI has again been named as the official charity partner for Cowes Week 2010.
The internationally famous sailing regatta has been staged each August since 1826 and attracts participants and...
Category: Articles
Rescue Exercise on Crantock Beach.
Rescue exercise on Crantock Beach. - View image in PDF
The lifeguards exercise regularly to ensure they are at their most effective in an actual emergency. - View image in PDF
Picture Auslin Wheeler. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (90)
AUGUST 15TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A German bomber had come down and the crew of five had taken to their rubber boat, but they were picked up by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (97)
AUGUST 20TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
Men working in a harvest field had reported that they had seen an aeroplane crashing into the sea, but nothing was found and no information of a missing aeroplane could be obtained. -...
A Small Boat (6)
AUGUST 7TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
Three boys had put out in a small unseaworthy boat, but they reached land without help and their boat was found on the beach near Workington. - Rewards, £6 4s. 6d..
Embla
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 4.45 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, a small vessel was seen to be in a dangerous position S. by E. of the Splaugh Rock.
A moderate but increasing N.E. gale was blowing, with heavy rain and a...
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speed into a rough sea. She arrived alongside the casualty, the converted motor fishing vessel Kathmar with a crew of three aboard, at 1350. Kathmar had been on passage from the Tyne to Londonderry when her engine had broken down. A line was...
Category: Services
A Converted Life-Boat
A YACHTSMAN who bought and con- verted one of the Institution's 35-feet 6-inch life-boats writes of her to the Yachting Monthly.
"Sailing performance is far beyond my expectations. With plate down she never...
Category: Articles