LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Christmas Gift
JUST before Christmas a packet was brought to the Institution by an official of the Post Office, who wished to be certain that it was intended for the Institution. It had the Oxford post- mark and was addressed "To life-boat...
Category: Donations
Coxswain David Clemence of Ilfracombe
Coxswain David Clemence of Ilfracombe (South West Division) joined the lifeboat crew in 1954 and was second coxswain for three months in 1972 before being appointed coxswain in the same year.
In 1981 he was awarded a framed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lagos Interested
The Institution has had a letter from Lagos in Nigeria, signed by Bob Reuben Taiwo, asking for its "free book", as he has heard that the Institution is "one of the belt Royal National Life-boat Institutions in Herts.".<...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1934
LAST year there was again an increase in the number of branches which held life-boat days, in the number of people who contributed and in the amount collected.
The number of branches holding days was|732, one more than in...
Category: Correspondence
Slasher, of Liverpool, Ship Bolton Abbey & Schooner Vanguard
On the 10th Jan. the steam-tug Slasher, of Liver- pool, while on her way to that port with the ship Bolton Abbey in tow, fell in, about daybreak, with the schooner Van- guard, of Carnarvon, which had been in collision with a foreign barque,...
Athol, of Ardrossan
On the 29th January, the schooner Atkol, of Ardrossan, was observed riding heavily between Irvine and Lady's Isle. The wind was blowing from the N.W., with heavy squalls and showers of rain.
The Pringle Kidd life-boat...
Irtysch (1)
BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...
Elizabeth Brooks
HOWTH, DUBLIN BAY,—The Life-boat Clara Baker was launched on the evening of the 6th August, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Elizabeth Brooks, of Larne, which was ashore, with strong breeze blowing from S.E., on the Baldoyle...
Breeze
FRASERBURGH.—The schooner Breeze, of and from Sunderland, bound for Dingwall with a cargo of coal, was observed to be in danger in Fraserburgh bay while a N.W. gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat...
Cantabria (1)
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—On the 2nd November, 1938, the Cromer life-boat rescued five from the Spanish steamer Cantabria, which was slowly sinking after being shelled by an armed auxiliary cruiser flying the flag of...