LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boats of France
ALTHOUGH the French were the first to experiment, as early as 1775, with an 'unsinkable and uncapsizable skiff' (canot insubmersible et inchavirable), they did not develop an organized life-boat service until much later.
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Category: Articles
Silver Medal for Irish Coxswain
FOR an outstanding service following a call to a ten-year-old boy who was seriously ill Coxswain Philip Byrne of Arranmore has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry.
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th November,...
Category: Medals
Remuneration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
ANY person who has travelled on our seacoasts, and has been in the habit of conversing with the fishermen and other seamen at the various ports, fishing-towns, and wateringplaces, on the subject of their rendering assistance to shipwrecked...
Category: Articles
The Important Question of Electrical Communication on the Coast. (From "The Times," January 12, 1892.)
WHEN the Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION brings the present lamentable state of our coast communications under the notice of Parliament next Session, it is to be hoped that the Government will either accept Ms proposals...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 10.—Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Life-Boat Station
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremony of the Aberystwyth Motor Life-Boat
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat was held at Aberystwyth on 20th April, in the presence of a large audience. The Earl of Lisburne, Lord- Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, the Bishop of St. David's and the Mayor and Mayoress...
Category: Inaugurations
Night Launch to Capsized Dinghy
ABOUT 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 13th of December, 1962, the motor boat Zephyr, with Mr. John Smith the owner, who is a member of the Long- hope life-boat crew, and William Mowat on board, returned to her moorings at North Bay,...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 13th February, 1936.
SIR GODFREY BARING, St., in the chair.
Decided that humble and loyal messages be presented to H.M. King Edward VIII and H.M. Queen Mary, on the death of...
Category: Committee
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services
May (1)
MAY MEETING GRIMNESS, ORKNEYS. About 2 in the afternoon of the 30th January, 1940, a ship’s boat, which had got away from the S.S.
Giralda, of Leith, after she had been bombed by German aeroplanes, was seen drifting ashore...
Category: Services