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Fifty Medals for Gallantry (13)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

On the 7th-8th December, 1939, the Salcombe life-boat rescued the sixty-two survivors of the S.S. Tajandoen, of Amsterdam, from the S.S. Louis Shied, of Antwerp, which had gone ashore after picking up survivors of the Tajandoen, sunk by...

Category: Articles

The Cooperative Bank

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

The COOPERATIVE BANK At this loan rate you could afford to S D1£IS ll O U t • any amount from £1,000 to £15,000 • funds transferred directly to your bank account - with the option of same day transfer* • no arrangement fees or...

Category: Advertisement

Mrs Anne Armstrong United States Ambassador Was Guest of Honour at the Reception at the Mansion House In the City of London on December I Which Launched the Ame

Date: Winter 1977

Volume: 44

Issue: 459

Mrs Anne Armstrong, United States Ambassador, was guest of honour at the reception at the Mansion House in the City of London on December I which launched the American! British lifeboat appeal. With her are seen (r. to I.) the Lord Mayor and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Big Day

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

The colourful 'Magic Roundabout' float, entered by the Dreel Tavern, taking part in Anstrutner lifeboat station's annual gala. Photo William F. Flett. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Getting the Message

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

The equipment in everyday use aboard a lifeboat has developed to the point where it has evolved its own jargon, almost as arcane as the language of the sea itself. In this, the first of an occasional series on the technicalities of lifeboats...

Category: Articles

The Seven Gold Medallists

Date: December 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 22

The eight gold medals were presented to seven coxswains. They were Robert Cross, of The Humber, who won the gold medal twice, and also the silver medal, the thanks on vellum and the George Medal, and helped to rescue 244 lives; Henry Blogg,...

Category: Articles

News from the Branches

Date: November 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 271

Eastbourne.

AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...

Category: Branches

The Year 1939

Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.

There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...

Category: Services

The Life-Boat

Date: May 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 132

The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...

Category: Articles

The Sailing Boat Berlin

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1949, the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a sailing boat was making for Portscatho. The weather was bad and she was in a dangerous position.

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