LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Katie
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares four miles off Mil- ford-on-sea. The life-boat John...
A Glider
ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a...
Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven
By the death, on 3rd June last, of Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven, at the age of fifty-seven, the Institution loses one of its most distinguished Coxswains. He was appointed Bowman in 1911. A year later he became Second Coxswain, and...
Category: Obituaries
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 16 Lives rescued 11 INISHBOFIN, CO. GALWAY. During the morning of the 4th of January, 1943, the Valentia radio received a message that the Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. Later the position was given Inishshark...
Category: Services
Miss Julia Hodges of St.John's Wood Selling Mr and Mrs Anthony Barber a Flag on London Life-Boat Day on 21st March—Budget Day Mr Barber Is of Course Chanc
Miss Julia Hodges, of St John's Wood, selling Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Barber a flag on London Life-boat Day on 21st March—Budget Day. Mr. Barber is, of course, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Category: Photographs
Men Behind the Medals
The Annual Presentation of Awards Ceremony in London provides a rare opportunity to gather together some of the year's medal winners and allow them to talk about their lifeboats, their services and their methods and views.Silver...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent, Who Made the Award Presentations on Behalf of Her Husband, the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., Congratulating Second Coxswain Ernest Guy (St. Mary's) After The
The Duchess of Kent, who made the award presentations on behalf of her husband, the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., congratulating Second Coxswain Ernest Guy (St. Mary's) after the award of first bar to his bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Two Steamers
', The Humber, Yorkshire.—14th April.
Two steamers had been in collision twenty miles away, but could not be found in a dense fog. One foundered, her crew being rescued by a near-by steamer, and the other, although...
A Small Trawler
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—1st October, 1939. A small trawler had been reported in a sinking condition fifty miles away, but another vessel took her in tow. The life-boat returned after being out for over nine hours.—Rewards, £16 2s. 9d....