LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gloire a Marie II
Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale force 9 to storm force...
Tahi-Tahi
A flare for rescue in darknessWalmer lifeboat crew proved they are ready for anything 24/7 when they were paged at 2 o'clock one morning in mid-winter. The lives of two yachtsmen depended on the crew being wide awake and alert throughout...
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(The figures refer to the numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 120. Dartmouth, the Karl of, and Hooper, Miss, 265. [142 Peach, Misses Frances and A Friend, 240. his Tenantry, 159. lope, Rev ...
Category: Donations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY. — The locality of Dundrum Bay, on the east coast of Ireland, has, during the last three or four years, been the site of numerous wrecks, lying as it does at the entrance of the channel between the Isle of Man and the...
Category: Articles
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...
Category: Articles
From the Foreign Life-Boat Societies. The Use of Oil on a Heavy Sea
THE annual report of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society for 1926 contains the following account of an arduous service by the new Motor Life-boat Brandaris stationed at Terschelling: " On receipt of a communication from the...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
WITH this number we greet a new readership. This consists of members of the newly formed Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association to be known as the Y.L.A. The new Association was formally brought into being by Sir Alec Rose at...
Category: Articles
Nigel Dixon: 'We Give Thanks for His Life'
IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...
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