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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: May 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 80

FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon.'r Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.<...

Category: Medals

The Last War Service

Date: June 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 20

The war in Europe ended at one minute after midnight of May 8th., and the last launch of a life-boat was one minute before the end. An mdei- vatei explosion, either torpedo or mine, had blown up a Norwegian minesweeper, one of four, fifteen...

Category: Articles

Dr. Harrison Broadbent on Top of the Cliff After His IRB Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight, on 10th April, 1966

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Dr Harrison Broadbent On Top of the Cliff After His Irb Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay Isle of Wight On 10th April 1966 (See P 136). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Some Ways of Making Money

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

For the past two years, Mrs Patricia Duncan has held hunter trials in her garden in aid of the RNLI. Her daughter and gardener made the jumps—last year they even achieved a water jump, as well as different shapes and styles through the woods...

Category: Articles

Focus on Scarborough

Date: June 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 424

WHEN I arrived at Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, night was falling. Down on the fish pier lights twinkled as the wind, the restless wind, tugged at lamp fittings. Sand, like powdered snow, drifted along the promenade, and the wind...

Category: Articles

The James H. Price, of Savannah

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

AUGUST 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 in the evening, a steamer was seen to be in danger of running ashore and the life-boat coxswain put out in a shore boat to investigate.

A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the...

Fig I: the Forefoot of the Stem Has a Fine

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

Fig. I: The forefoot of the stem has a fine entry. Ruffle holes are built into the skeg through which preventer chains are passed to hold the lifeboat, when at rest, on her slipway.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Converted Life-Boat In Danger

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

AT 12.15, early on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Walney coastguard rang up the Barrow life- boat station to say that a man living in Bootle had reported that his small daughter had seen a small boat aground half a mile south of...

Category: Services

Centenary of the Institution, 1924

Date: May 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 276

The history of the Institution is now i being written, and will be published in j j the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may...

Category: Articles

The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...