LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Family Profile By Joan Davies
THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legeud, " Royal...
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The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
Category: Services
The Busiest Winter for Twenty Years. Medals Won By English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-Boatmen
Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 6th July, 1917.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th October, 1911.
The Right Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance...
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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (5)
Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.
JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....
Category: Services
The Corporation of Trinity House
IN the Journal of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION it is fitting that there should appear a brief account of the history and functions of the Cor- poration of Trinity House, the General Lighthouse and Pilotage Authority for the...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Cflmene.—Bust oi Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyoji." Double legend, *' Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
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The S.S. Grano
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 7.55 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1953, a telephone message was received at the life-boat station stating that a ship had gone aground half a mile south of Staithes. At 8.30 the life-boat Robert Patton—The...