LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
AWARDS to COXSWAINS, CREW MEMBERS AND SHORE HELPERS 1992
The following Coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension....
Category: Awards
Relief Fleet - Trent Class Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Countess Mountbatten puts to sea from the RNLI's Poole depot quay aboard the first Trent class lifeboat shortly after naming her Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below (L-R): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick
Below (l-r): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below Left! the Bulk of the Norfolk and Suffolk Type
(Below left! The bulk of the Norfolk and Suffolk type and the small internal volume are illustrated by the WTO-built James Leath at the lifeboat collection in Chatham Dockyard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Empire Tigaven and The S.S. Cormoat (1)
DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.
Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.
A...
Lives Rescued by Shore-boats and Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Shore-boats rescued 1,168 lives, for whose rescue the Institution rewarded the rescuers.
Auxiliary rescue-boats, established by the Institution, rescued 42 lives..
Category: Services
The Mayors of London and the Life-Boat Service
BY the kindness of the Lord Mayor of London (Colonel Sir Alfred Louis Bower) a meeting was held at the Mansion House, on 13th January, at which the Mayors, Mayoresses and Town Clerks of the London Boroughs were invited to meet the Committee...
Category: Articles
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
IN a recent number of this Journal, after explaining the reasons which had led to the transfer of the Life-boat Establishments of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society to the Royal National Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Harbour Life-Boats and the Life-Preserving Apparatus
WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
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Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—A life-boat station has been recently formed at Fleetwood in connection with the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. A life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, as adopted by the Institution, 30 ft. long, rowing six oars,...
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