LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£5 By Benefit of Theft
WHEN thieves broke into the Whitby County Club at the end of last year and robbed the till of £5, they also took a life-boat collecting box containing £11 10s. The Prudential Assurance Company replaced not only the £5 taken...
Category: Articles
In For The Long Haul
In for the long haul The yacht Paka’a was returning across the Channel from Cherbourg, on the evening of 27 May 2007, when her auxiliary engine began to fail The weather was appalling – against the 50–60 knot headwinds and torrential rain,...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1902
Jan. 9.—Five men put off in'a boat and at moderate risk rescued three fishermen whose boat had been overtaken by a S.S.W. gale and a rough sea, on the 23rd December, in Llan- dudno Bay.—Reward, II. 5s.
Jan. 9.—Voted...
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I Doubt Whether There Exists In This Country a Finer Collection of Men and Women Nor a Better Living Example of the Spirit of Voluntary Service Throughout the World'
From a painting by Michael Turner which appeared with Paul Pickering's and Donald McLachlan's article 'For Those In Peril On the Sea' in Reader's Digest for February, 1972. The incident occurred in 1966 when the Holyhead... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lists of Awards
to -voluntary zvorkers at the 1998 Annual Presentation of Awards Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded three Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bars to the Gold Badge and 50 Gold Badges....
Category: Awards
The Helwick Lightvessel
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a request from the Trinity House Superintendent at Swansea for the services of the life-boat to land a very sick member of the...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the "plan" or deck view. Fig. 3...
Category: Articles
Ant of Boston
The Herbert Ingram life-boat at Skeg- ness saved 2 men from the sloop Ant, of Boston, which became a total wreck on Skegness Beach.
Dutch Awards to Torbay Crew
THE Queen of the Netherlands awarded the silver medal of humane assistance to ex-Coxswain H. O. Thomas of Torbay for the rescue of a man from a Dutch lighter on the 7th of December, 1959. The other seven members of the crew were each awarded...
Category: Awards
An Aeroplane (67)
APRIL 29TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British Sunderland aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £10 14s.
(See Bardsey Island, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page...