LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Farthings
As a result of the statement in the Institution's appeals in 1933 that the £250,000 a year which it needed was equivalent to five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles, not only has it received a good many in-...
Category: Donations
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1873-4
lisions.—It appears then, that the number of wrecks, casualties, and collisions from all causes on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas, reported during the year 1873-4, was 1,803, being 401 less than the...
Category: Charts
Training for Disaster
ILINER EXPLODES IN WORKINGTON HARBOUR - MANY FEARED DEAD, 100 INJURED 'Sirens blasted across Workington as black clouds of smoke rose above the town. Roads were blocked as ambulances and fire engines hurtled towards the docks, blue...
Category: Articles
Dutch Honour for the Fishguard Crew
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...
Category: Awards
Ceremonies
North Sunderland Mersey class Grace Darling Despite forecasts of heavy rain, the morning of Tuesday 24 September dawned bright.
However, there was also a Force 8/9 gale which caused the naming ceremony site at North...
Category: Inaugurations
Four Months of War
THE first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service.
Its crews have gone out to the rescue more often, and they have...
Category: Articles
Coming Ashore
One of the four survivors of a steamer which was blown up on 15th November, 1939, and sank in a few minutes with her crew of thirteen. Nine were drowned. Four were picked up from the sea by another steamer, three of them badly injured, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
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Category: Advertisement
In May 1972 Princess Anne Visited the St.Ives Cornwall Life-Boat Station Where She Met Coxswain Thomas Cocking Who Two Months Later Dived for the Boy Described I
In May, 1972, Princess Anne visited the St. Ives, Cornwall, life-boat station where she met Coxswain Thomas Cocking who two months later dived for the boy described in the report on this page.
by courtesy of Studio St. Ives... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Corin
John Corin, president of Coverack Branch since the early 1970's. He joined the committee in 1951 and was appointed branch auditor. He was chairman and deputy launching authority from 1956 to 1979 when the lifeboat was withdrawn.
Category: Obituaries