LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1963 has been won by Mechanic Joseph Houlihan of Valentia for the rescue single-handed of two men on 2nd September. A full account of the service...
Category: Awards
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THK Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1962 has been won by Bowman John Kerr, of Blyth, for his part in the rescue of the crew of two of the motor vessel Paullgate on the 18th November. A...
Category: Awards
Opposite and Above: 30,000 People Enjoy Visiting the RNLI at Hoylake Each Year
Opposite And Above: 30,000 People Enjoy Visiting The RNLI At Hoylake Each Year. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
End of a Class Act
The very last Waveney class lifeboat in the RNLI fleet, Margaret Graham, sailed from her mooring at Amble lifeboat station on 24 July under the helm of her retiring coxswain, Rodney Surge MBE, to take up a new role as pilot boat for Whitby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
How to Act In Cases of Drowning
IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...
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Inset: Each 'little ship' was presented with a commemorative plaque on arrival at Dunkirk.
Inset: Each 'little ship' was presented with a commemorative plaque on arrival at Dunkirk.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In the After Cabin of Each Lifeboat Sensitive Pens Kept a Ceaseless Scientific Chronicle
In the after cabin of each lifeboat sensitive pens kept a ceaseless scientific chronicle. . . .. - View image in PDF
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Hundreds Of Fancy-Dressed Swimmers And Spectators Brave The Elements At Charmouth Beach Each Christmas
Hundreds of fancy-dressed swimmers and spectators brave the elements at Charmouth beach each Christmas, thanks to Carol and Geoff Prosser at the Royal Oak, to raise money for Lyme Regis lifeboat station, so far to the tune of over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Merchant Shipping Act. Second Article
Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...
Category: Songs
Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Act, 1873
IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...
Category: Articles