LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cordon Rouge adventure
The RNLI has been named charity of the year by the Champagne G.H. Mumm Cordon Rouge Club, whose members include explorers and adventurers such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Ben Fogle and Dee Caffari.
The...
Category: Articles
Liberian Thanks:
Liberian thanks: a January night in 1984 when St Peter Port, Guernsey, lifeboat managed to save nine men from a ship's lifeboat after their Liberian freighter Radient Med had sunk in a force 9 gale, led to a presentation in London in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain John Gill
COXSWAIN JOHN GILL, of Galway Bay, who served as bowman from 1932 to 1933, second coxswain from 1933 to 1938 and coxswain from 1938 to 1943, was awarded the bronze medal in 1938 for the rescue of eleven men when the steam trawler Nogi went...
Category: Obituaries
A Steamer
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—19th July, 1939. A steamer had stranded on the South Carr Rock in a fog, but she got off at high water and went on her way.—Rewards, £5 10*..
Ostende
JANUARY 17TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The Belgian steamer Ostende had been reported in difficulties, but later signalled that she was out of danger.- Rewards, £22 12s.
Travelscope Holidays Ltd
North Cape & Land of the Midnight Sun Cruise from £699 Honningsvag, North Cape MV Athena 11 days departing: 13th June 2007 Sailing from Harwich - No Flying Five ports of call: Ålesund, Tromso, Bergen (Norway), Honningsvåg...
Category: Advertisement
Soldiers' Gratitude.
A reader in "The Folkestone Herald", who watched collectors on life boat flag day, said: "I noticed that not one single service man passed without buying an emblem, and in at least three instances I heard soldiers tell sellers...
Category: Articles
Erratum
IN the March 1960 number of the Life-boat it was stated on page 381 that the bronze medal for gallantry had been awarded to Mr. Hugh Owen, of the Moelfre, Anglesey, crew. In fact, Mr.
Owen was awarded a second-service clasp...
Category: Awards
2012: A Jubilee year!
We’re proud to call HM The Queen the RNLI’s Patron. In this, her Diamond Jubilee year, we’re celebrating extraordinary commitment – Her Majesty’s commitment to the RNLI, our volunteers’ commitment to saving lives at sea, and your commitment...
Category: Articles
Bridget, of Dungarvan
DUNGARVAN.—At 3 P.M. on the 2nd August, the Life-boat Christopher Ludlow was launched from this station, and, after an hour and a half of hard rowing, the crew succeeded in boarding the brigantine Bridget, of Dungarvan, which vessel while on...