LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards Presented at the Royal Festival Hall
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting the Committee of Management has awarded ten Bars to the Gold Badge and forty-eight Gold Badges.
BAR TO THE GOLD BADGE Mrs Margaret Driscoll Burnmouth Branch: Honorary...
Category: Awards
A legacy of trust
Diana has a sense of humour. As we pull onto her drive she’s standing on the threshold of her Hampshire home laughing at our attempts to park. ‘Mind my rockery,’ she jokes, indicating she doesn’t give two hoots about her...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Life-Boat Service
By Mr. OTTAR VOGT, Secretary of the Norwegian Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked.
THE coast of Norway is very extensive and mountainous, rocky and precipitous all over — the whole coastline being guarded by a fence...
Category: Articles
A Sponsored Row from Bristol to Appledore Which Was Attempted By Crew Members from Appledore Unfortunately Had to Be Abandoned After About 20 Miles Due to Strong Winds and Aggravation
A sponsored row from Bristol to Appledore which was attempted by crew members from Appledore, unfortunately had to be abandoned after about 20 miles due to strong winds and aggravation to an old hand injury of one of the rowers.
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Category: Photographs
The S.S. Mangalore
NOV. 24TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 9.5 A.M . a very loud explosion was heard in the direction of the Lower Middle Buoy. A vessel. apparently on fire, was seen, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was...
The S.S. Baron Berwick
SOS FROM HULL Humber, Yorkshire. At about 4.50 p.m. on 8th October, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the Hull agents of the S.S. Baron Berwick asking if a doctor could be taken to the ship as there was a sick man on board...
The Naming at Cowes of Rnlb Sir Max Aitken Ii
ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 STORNOWAY'S NEW 52FT ARUN LIFEBOAT WHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA named the new Stornoway lifeboat on Thursday February 23 it was a doubly historic occasion for, almost 30 years before, her mother the Duchess of Kent,...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Earl Percy
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the 23rd December, at 5.30 A.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded to the Hasborough Sand, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong W.N.W. wind and heavy sea. On arriving there, she found the s.s. Earl...
The S.S. Hellopse
At 10.30 A.M.
on the 21st December a large steamer was observed, on her beam ends, trying to work into the bay. A very heavy ground sea was running, and a gale blowing from the south-west. A steam trawler was standing by...
The Life-Boat Station
THB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 294 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles