LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Socoa
A large full- rigged ship went ashore off Cadgwith oil the evening of the 1st August in a fresh southerly breeze and moderate sea, the Life-boat Minnie Moon was launched with all despatch and pro- ceeded alongside her....
Two Fishing Cobles
On the 6th February, two fishing-cobles, which had put to sea from this place to pursue their ordinary avocations, were overtaken by a heavy gale, and ran back to the Haven, but were unable to enter, on ac- count of the heavy seas which...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th April, 1868: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1935.
£ s. d.
61 7 0 BB _B _ _ __ _ MHB Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspec- tion of Life-boats and Life-boat...
Category: Accounts
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MINEHEAD, SOMERSETSHIRE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Minehead, there being sufficient men available for manning and launching the boat, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the...
Category: Articles
Try Again
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—On the 26th August one of the pilots went out in his boat, the Try Again, to bring back another pilot who was taking out a steamer. The wind, which was blowing from N.N.E., increased to a strong gale and a heavy sea sprung...
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Category: Advertisement
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1967 Three Bronze Medals for Welsh crew Three members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans,...
Category: Articles
F.E 78 The Cereal
On the afternoon of the 2nd May the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the fishing boat F.E. 78—the Cereal, of Folkestone—was in difficulties half a mile off Sandgate. A moderate N.E.
gale was blowing,...
George Lamey (Third from R) Holder of the Bronze Medal Who Retired As Coxswain In 1955 After 26 Years Service at Clovelly Was Presented With a Statuette for Collecti
George Lamey (third from r.), holder of the bronze medal, who retired as coxswain in 1955 after 26 years service at Clovelly, was presented with a statuette for collecting £3,000 in four years with a collecting box at the lookout.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs