LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sybil of Goole
On the 13th December, the sloop Sybil, of Goole, got ashore on Thorpeness, when the life-boat was launched to her aid, and landed her crew of 3 men in safety: 1 man was washed out of the life-boat by a heavy surf.
First Aid In Life-Boats
A XEW book of instruction on first aid, First Aid for Life-boat Crews, which has been prepared by Dr. Geoffrey Hale, a member of the Committee of Management, has been issued to all life-boat stations. The purpose of the book is to explain...
Category: Articles
Gipsy Queen
On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate...
Schermuly Ltd
"Never sail without Schermuly - they have a flare for saving lives" Take the advice of the people who know that it makes good sense to carry a pack of signal flares .. .just in case ! Schermuly Yacht Signals are available...
Category: Advertisement
Award for Bravest Act
Some years ago a Miss Maud Smith left a sum of money to the Institution so that a gift of £5, to be known as the 'Miss Maud Smith award for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke', might be made each year to the...
Category: Awards
A Record Number of Visitors to This Year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, Visited the R.N.L.I. Stand Between 4th-14th January, 1967
A record number of visitors to this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, visited the R.N.L.I. stand between 4th-14th January, 1967. Principal exhibits were the new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy, open for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Southend-on-Sea
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX On the 6th December, 1940, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued eight men.
the crews of the barges Cambria, Decima, Glencoe, and Nelson.
COXSWAIN SIDNEY H. B. PAGE was awarded the...
Category: Medals
Bronze Medal Award
The Lifeboat is pleased to announce the award of an RNLI Bronze Medal for Gallantry to the Coxswain of Dunbar lifeboat, 38-year-old Gary Fairbairn.
Gary and his crew endured a 42-mile passage in severe gale force 9 winds...
Category: Articles
The Press and Life-Boat Work
We would like to express the grateful thanks of the Institution to the following firms of publishers who have generously inserted the leaflet of the Institution in their Christmas issues or have given us a free advertisement in their pages...
Category: Correspondence
An Aeroplane (3)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...