LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
DURING the present year the Institution has presented Vellums to thirteen Stations which have been in existence for a century and over. Reports of seven of these...
Category: Articles
Obituary
BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...
Category: Obituaries
Rescue Call
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
Launching Ceremony at Whitby. From "The Whitby Gazette."
SHORTLY after the commencement of the war, the finely-equipped Red Cross hospital ship Rohilla, belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Co., whilst proceeding on an errand of mercy to France, went ashore at Saltwick Nab, about a mile...
Category: Articles
The Centenary: In London. Gold Medallists Decorated By the King
DURING its first century the Institution awarded its Gold Medal for gallantry and conspicuous service in saving life from shipwreck, ninety-five times. Fourteen Gold Medals were also awarded for other forms of service to the Institution, but...
Category: Medals
STARS IN OUR TIME OF DARKNESS
The First World War is one the darkest chapters in our history, but we will never forget the countless acts of humanity that shone through – including those of RNLI lifeboat crews on the home front
This year, we celebrate...
Category: Articles
Bradford's Bazaar. Fund for the Life-Boat House on the Humber
Fund for the Life-boat House on the {lumber.
As all readers of The Lifeboat know, the city of Bradford has been conspicuously generous in its support of the Life-boat Service, and nowhere, on the coast or inland, has the...
Category: Articles
Whitby: the Lifeboat Station and Her People By Joan Davies
A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
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