LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Addison Brown, of Cresswell, Northum- berland. He was appointed coxswain in 1925, after serving for a few months as second coxswain, and he has served in the life-boat for thirty-one...
Category: Articles
The Help of Golf Clubs
DURING 1937 sixty-six golf clubs held competitions in aid of the life-boat service and contributed £222 6*. 6d- Two more clubs held the competition than in 1936, and £25 more was contributed. The same appeal has been made...
Category: Articles
Silver and Bronze Medals for Aberdeen
THE Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, of Aberdeen, and its bronze medal or thanks on vellum to each member of the crew, for the rescue on 26th January of the crew of the steamer Fairy, of King's Lynn...
Category: Medals
Screw Steam Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Drawings
Katina Bulgaris
The Humber, Yorkshire.—8th February, 1939. The- Greek steamer Katina Bulgaris, of Andros, had collided with the American steamer Meanticut and sank, but the Meanticut rescued her crew.—Permanent paid crew: Rewards, £l Os. 3d..
Coming Ashore
One of the four survivors of a steamer which was blown up on 15th November, 1939, and sank in a few minutes with her crew of thirteen. Nine were drowned. Four were picked up from the sea by another steamer, three of them badly injured, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—A bather had got into difficulties in a rough sea, but the life-boat could find no sign of him and he was believed to have been drowned.—Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
A Fishing Boat (1)
On the night of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1955, the Newcastle, County Down, life-boat rescued the crew of four of a fishing vessel after six unsuc- cessful attempts. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Patrick McClelland has...
Photographic Competition
THE Institution is holding a competition for the best photograph of a life-boat, a life-boat station, or an actual rescue.
The competition is open to members of life-boat crews, branch members and officials, and members of...
Category: Articles
Maime
THREE MEDALS FOR STORNOWAY On the 30th January, 1962, the Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, life-boat rescued two people from the motor fishing vessel Maime. A full account of this service, for which three medals for gallantry were awarded, appears...