LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...
Category: Services
Sea Warriors
I AM sitting right, opposite to it. The dark red doors of the stone, chapel-like j little building are wide open. The sun is shining, and the sea is calui. Over the doors in large white letters on a blue background is written "...
Category: Articles
The Gold Standard
Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...
Category: Medals
Our Inland Branches. Settle
DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...
Category: Articles
Jobs for the Girls
The women launchers at Boulmer, Northumberland. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor? How about Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker? Or, in the case of the RNLI, shore helper, medic, lifeboat crew and press officer? Mention any of these jobs and...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of the Deutschland
ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
WEXFORD.—At about 8th Feb. 1884, telegrams were received stating that a large fourmast ship was ashore on the Pollock Rocks n Fethard Bay. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the south and the sea was very heavy. Horses were procured as...
Category: Services
The Mail Steamer St. Sunniva
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ON SEA AND LAND A STANDING OVATION for a gold medallist and his crew at the end of the presentation of no less than 24 medals for gallantry; the report of an increase of...
Category: Meetings
Talvez and The Ecuadorian Motor Vessel Bonita
Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...