LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Selina, of Swansea
— On the 27th March, the schooner Selina, of Swansea, was totally wrecked on the Outer Stag Rocks, during a strong N.N.E. wind. The Anna Maria life-boat was quickly launched, but before she could reach the vessel, the master and a boy had...
The Bravest Deed of 1948
THE "Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage, in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke," for the bravest deed of the year has. been awarded to Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer, for the rescue of thirty lives from the Italian...
Category: Awards
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION.
Incorporated by Royal Charter. Supported Solely by Voluntary Contributions.
patron—His Most Gracious Majesty the fling.
President—H.R.H. THE...
Category: Advertisement
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 524 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
Category: Contents
Melinda Muriel
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
Annual General Meeting. Life-Boatmen Were Honoured
Life-Boatmen Were Honoured During 1964 rescue craft of the Royal National Life-boat Institution received more service calls than in any year since the foundation of the Institution in 1824. This was reported by Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham...
Category: Meetings
The Late Lord Lawrence
THE memory of the late distinguished Viceroy of India will, like many of his great predecessors, be long honoured and held in affectionate remembrance. Lord Lawrence took considerable interest in the welfare of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Obituaries
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Category: Advertisement
The Men Who Man the Life-Boat
WHEN a shrieking, thund'rous tempest Breaks the stillness of the night, And a ship in seething waters Wages impotential fight; As the life-croft to the rescue, Gallant oarsmen speed afloat— Do we realise the perils Of the men who man the...
Category: Poetry
Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool
— On the 19th March, as the brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, was coming into the Tyne under charge of a pilot, a sea struck her steering wheel, injuring the man at the helm, and she was driven on the Stones south of the North Pier,...