LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
73 Takes Command.
When an American aeroplane came down in the sea near Caister the coxswain and other regular members of the crew were away, but ex-Coxswain Charles Lacock, aged 73, took command, three soldiers helped to make up the crew, and the life-boat...
Category: Articles
From a Mother In Eire
A woman in County Cork has sent a pound, saying: "My son has just been saved after his ship went, and I -feel I should like to help to save another mother's soa"..
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55 Years -- Still Giving
A subscriber in Huddersfield in sending his subscription of £2 writes: "In the year 1889 my father bought us children Mr. Ballantyne's Book 'The Life-boat'. Since then I have never been able to get past a life-boat...
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Annual Meeting
The annual meeting will be held in the Central Hall Westminster, on Thursday, October 25th, and the Duchess of Kent will present the eight gold medals which the Institution awarded during the war to life-boat coxswains for conspicuous...
Category: Meetings
Lagos Interested
The Institution has had a letter from Lagos in Nigeria, signed by Bob Reuben Taiwo, asking for its "free book", as he has heard that the Institution is "one of the belt Royal National Life-boat Institutions in Herts.".<...
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Model new crew member
Aberdovey’s newest crew member, Steve Bowen (18), has been following the family’s RNLI tradition since he was 2 years old.
Steve was the star of a UK-wide RNLI advertising campaign in 1992. His father Dave, who was on the...
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2013: what a difference
Supporters and volunteers from around the UK and Republic of Ireland headed to London for our AGM and Annual Presentation of Awards in May. The awardees included artist Tracey Emin (pictured right). See page 21 for more on a special day that...
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Eliza of Shields
On the night of the 16th March, the schooner Eliza, of Shields, missed stays and was driven ashore three-quarters of a mile from the Palling life-boat station. The life-boat was quickly launched and proceeded to her, landing her crew, 7 in...
Caroline Elizabeth, of London
On the following night the same life-boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of 13 men, from the barque Caroline Eliza- beth, of London, which had stranded on the South Steel rocks...
Asia
AUG. 26TH . - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Rockets had been seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her bearings, and towed her...