LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWSPOINT One only has to look at the names of the RNLI's lifeboat's to realise that a large percentage of them, indeed perhaps the majority, have been funded by legacies and bear the name of the donor or a close...

FlSHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. On the 22nd March, at about 7.30 A.M., a signal of distress was shown from a vessel at anchor in the bay, where she had been riding with others during the night. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., at...

WICKLOW, IBELAND. -— The Life-boat placed here some years since having become unfit for further service has been replaced by the Institution—a fine new sailing boat of the self-righting type having, with the full concurrence of the Local...

On the 9th May the fishing-luggers Effrontery of Stonehaven and Snowdrop of Torry were in distress in a moderate gale from the N. and a heavy sea. The Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M. and escorted the boats into the harbour..

The Boulmer Life-Boat and Her Crew. - View image in PDF

To ROBEBT EsoiAND, on his retirement, after To RICHARD WmiAMS, on bis retirement, serving 25 years as Signalman, and formerly after serving ten years as Second Coxswain, 17 years as a member of the crew of the and one year as Bowman of the...

To JOHN MATTHEWS, Coxswain of the Moelfre Life-boat, a silver watch for devotion to duty when the Life-boat was wrecked owing to breaking from her moorings during a very heavy N.E. gale, on the llth February, 1929.

To OWEN...

THE Institution receives each year from a number of the big shipping com- panies part of the proceeds of collec- tions which have been made on board their ships on behalf of different chari- ties. The increasing numbers, as well as the...