LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
Caister, Norfolk.—About 11 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of May, 1948, four men could be seen standing by a boat on Scroby Sands two and a half miles to the south-east, and at 11.30 the motor life-boat Jose Neville was, launched. A...
A Seaplane
MAY 18TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A seaplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £8 1s..
A Yacht
MAY 14TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN.
A yacht had got into difficulties, but was able to go on her way without help. - Rewards, £15 Is..
A Yacht
ESCORT FOR YACHT AFTER SHE REFLOATS Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.40 on the evening of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a message received from the police that a local man had taken a woman and two...
A Boat
SHORT OF FUEL At 10.47 a.m. on 22nd December, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary he had received a message from the Royal Sovereign lightvessel that there was a small boat alongside with three men who had not enough fuel to...
Philip Biidden Jonathan Makins and Richard and Simon Folkes from Charterhouse School Hand Over a Cheque for £1110 to Commander Swann Chairman
Philip Biidden, Jonathan Makins and Richard ami Simon Folkcs, from Charterhouse School, hand over a cheque for i.1,110 to Commander /•'. ./? H. Swann, Chairman of the RNLI. They, with Sehan Anketall (who was unable to be present), raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
A Vessel
Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—30th January. Following a report that the lights of a vessel under observation had disappeared, a search was made, but nothing could be found.
—Rewards : Port St. Mary, £33 5s...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats. Over £500 Collected In Five Years
THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
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List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1862
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and 51. to Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, the master of the smack Volunteer, of Harwich. Also the Silver Medal and 21. to each of the 5 men who went off in the smack's boat to the wreck; and the...
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