LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Message from the Chairman
Towards the close of a year in which greater demands were made on the life-boat service than ever before, I would like to congratulate everyone connected with the service on their splendid achievements and to wish them all a very happy...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1907
Jan. 10.—Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, and 11.10s. each to five men, one of whom was the Coxswain of the Poole Life-boat, for rescuing at great personal risk .one of two men whose boat was capsized on...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860....
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The Parliamentary Inquiry
" YOUR Committee cannot conclude their report without recording their opinion that the thanks of the whole community are due to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the energy and good management (often in very...
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The Steamship Clan Grant
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—At 4.30A.M.
on the 21st March, during a N.W. wind, signals of distress were observed in the vicinity of the " North Stack," and in response the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland promptly...
On the High Seas
ALTHOUGH the work of the Institution is to succour those in peril from shipwreck round our coasts, it is well that we should never forget the perils of those on the high seas, the gallant rescues performed there, and the long suffering which...
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Returning from the Sands
The Walmer life-boat and her crew The 'last photograph is by Mr. Bert. Hardy, of Picture Post, and is reproduced by kind permission of that paper. The other photographs are by Mr. George Goldsmith Carter, author of Looming Lights, A True... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Winters of Newhaven
WHEN Second Coxswain Stanley Winter retired from the service in 1954 a family record of 100 years' association with the Newhaven life-boat was inter- rupted. In 1854 Second Coxswain Winter's grandfather became a member of the crew...
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The Coningbeg Lightvessel (1)
SICK MAN At 12.20 p.m. on nth February, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick man on the Coningbeg Lightvessel needed to be taken ashore. No other suitable boat being available the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont proceeded to...
On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
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