LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Next RNLI Chairman
Admiral The Lord Boyce will take over as Chairman of the RNLI from 5 November this year.
He joined the RNLI Council in 2004 and has served as Vice-Chairman since 2006. In his naval career he was First Sea Lord and Chief of...
Category: Articles
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (3)
On the 10th October, 1939, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Saltaire, of Grimsby. Later the men returned to their ship, with the owner’s agent, and seven were rescued a second time by the life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
A Barque
A telephone message was received from Bacton reporting a barque -with signals of distress flying, on the 27th March. A whole gale was blowing from N.E. by E., the sea was very heavy and the •weather very cold, with squalls of hail. The crew...
Ann Grace
POINT OF AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and HOYLAKE (CHESHIRE). — On the 21st February, during a whole gale from W.
with a very heavy sea, intelligence was received that rockets were being fired in the direction of Lime Wharf. The Point...
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial to the Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives on Service on 3rd December, 1920
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial To The Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives On Service On 3rd December 1920. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A French Schooner
7th December. A French schooner ran ashore, but got away unaided. The master expressed his thanks for the launch of the Life-boat.—Rewards, £3 Is. 9d..
A Steamer
Angle and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.— 21st December, 1932. A steamer in distress was taken in tow by another steamer.—Rewards, Angle, £15 17s. 6d., Tenby, £15 Os. 6d..
A Motor Boat (1)
15th August. A report that a motor boat had disappeared was followed by a search, but nothing was found, or reported missing.—Rewards, £3 18s..
After Seventy-Six Hours! The Ballycotton Crew on Their Return
Left to right: M. C. Walsh, Motor Mechanic T. Sliney, Second Coxswain J. L. Walsh, J. S Sliney, Coxswain Patrick Sliney, T D Walsh, W. Sliney.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat (5)
Southend'on-Sea, Essex.-—30th September, 1938. A small boat had been reported missing, but the boat returned unaided.—Rewards, £20 18s. 6d..