LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
THE beautiful obverse of this medal, executed by L. C. WYON, Esq., represents the bust of QUEEN VICTORIA, Her Majesty's locks gracefully waving and gathered in a knot behind...
Category: Medals
Formby from Opposite Page
'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...
Category: Articles
Clacton from Page 119
raised £630 to pay for the radio in the ILB. Clacton Round Table presented £100. St Osyth Training College gave the proceeds of its annual rag week, £300. Clacton Operatic Society presented £150. Tollesbury Sailing Club...
Category: Articles
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd July, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Prizes Galore at the Mermaid Ball
This masterpiece of chocolate confectionery floating on a sea of blue icing and donated by Thorntons, was just one of many prizes in a 'short odds' raffle held during the 1989 Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball which was held at the London... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A phenomenal day
On a day when the highest wave ever recorded off the western shores of Ireland tipped 20.4m, Fenit lifeboat crew were called into action
On 13 December 2011, with a violent storm force 11...
Category: Articles
Sad loss of sail training vessel
Portush and Red Bay lifeboats were launched when the sail training vessel The Lord Rank ran aground off the coast of Co Antrim on 8 June.
There were six people onboard the 21m yacht – five radio DJs and the skipper. In a 4...
Category: Articles
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Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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