LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rescue on the Cornish Cliffs
THE Institution has awarded its Thanks inscribed on Vellum and a monetary reward to Mr. J. Curtis, a fisherman of Polperro, Cornwall, for his gallantry in rescuing a shipwrecked man by climbing down the cliffs to him. in circumstances of...
Category: Awards
The Motor Drifter Dol-Fyn
APRIL 23RD. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At about 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel about three miles south of Portland Bill was showing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obvertt.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, "W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron,...
Category: Medals
Sailing Bye
Anchor dragged THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Tenby lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 0445 on Sunday September 25, 1983, that the yacht Sailing Bye had dragged her anchor and was aground on the north beach, Tenby. Maroons were...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided •with a carnage, oa which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.
Although the Society ("...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: Neil Oliver
The lead presenter of the BBC’s long-running Coast series shares his admiration for our supporters and lifesavers – especially the volunteers who rescued him …
You’ve come face to...
Category: Articles
The Town of Ipswich Lifeboat
THE town of Ipswich has come forward in a novel and spirited manner in support of the life-boat cause. Although not actually on the coast, it has occurred to benevolent gentlemen resident at Ipswich, that inland towns might especially be...
Category: Articles
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Valentia, Co. Kerry—On the 24th of March, 1950, the Commissioners of the Irish Lights asked the life-boat to relieve the Skelligs Rocks and Inish- tearaght Rocks Lighthouses as, by arrangement with the Commissioners, she had been made...
New Members of the Committee of Management
BRIGADIER N. B. Brading, C.M.G., C.B.E., Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., and the Duke of Atholl have been co- opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Brigadier Brading served as an officer of the East...
Category: Committee