LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medals for Two Scottish Coxswains. St. Andrews, Fifeshire and Thurso, Caithness-Shire
St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.
Two gallant services were carried out by Life-boats in Scotland during March., one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and the other by the...
Category: Medals
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. — Fourteen Whitby cobles being overtaken by a rough sea while fishing on the 13th Feb. 1900, were unable to return home and were seen to be making for Runswick. The Life-boat Gape of Good Hope was launched at 1.30 P.M....
Category: Services
(Inset 1990) Has the Cut-Away Topsides and Standard Wheelhouse of the Later Boats
While The Final Boat Duke of Atholl (inset, 1990) has the cut-away topsides and standard wheelhouse of the later boats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Malcolm Carefully Approaches Araxian As Niell Is Helped Over the Guardrails and Onto the Casualty
Malcolm Carefully Approaches Araxian As Niell Is Helped Over The Guardrails And Onto The Casualty. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret’s Grandfather And Acting Coxswain William Roberts (left) With Captain Owen Jones, Both RNLI Gold Medallists
Margaret’s grandfather and Acting Coxswain william Roberts (left) with Captain Owen Jones, both RnLI Gold Medallists. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
ALL friends of the Life-boat cause will be gratified at the announcement that H.R.H. the DUKE or YORK, our sailor prince, who has for several years been a Vice-Patron of the Institution, has now graciously accepted the post of President of...
Category: Articles
Left) Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse a 52Ft Barnett Lifeboat Stationed at Plymouth from 1952 to 1974 for Her Service to Merc Enterprise An January 16 1974 Co
(Left) Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, a 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Plymouth from 1952 to 1974. For her service to Merc Enterprise an January 16, 1974, Coxswain John Dare was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards for "Calculated Courage"
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been awarded to seven men who put out in the Portrush life-boat to search for survivors from a Norwegian frigate on ist November, 1965.
At 9.16 that morning Mr. W. R....
Category: Services
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., at Blackpool. Naming of Motor Life-Boat and Opening of New Boat-House
ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Curious Coincidence
In the course of the eloquent speech and earnest appeal which H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES made as President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at the London Life-boat Saturday Dinner on 1st May last, he said, " I am anxious to...
Category: Articles