LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medals of the National Shipwreck Institution
WE have had frequent opportunities to witness the high value which our own countrymen attach to the medals of this Institution, some 600 of which have been voted to them for acts of gallantry; and we have much satisfaction in extracting the...
Category: Medals
A Silver Medal Service at Longhope
ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.
It was then ten minutes...
Category: Services
A Working Man on the Life-Boat Service
THE following letter was received last October from Ashington, the mining village in Northumberland. The Cresswell Lifeboat Station IB not far away, and most of the Cresswell Crew have at one time or another worked in theAshington mines. The...
Category: Articles
Firms and Their Products
• Decca Radar Ltd., Decca House, Albert Embankment, London, S.E. 1, have been privileged to provide radar for the R.N.L.I, for eight years.
The Decca 202 series and Kelvin Hughes Type 17 were the first sets to meet all the...
Category: Articles
Scrivens
"MY HEARING AND HAPPINESS - I'VE REDISCOVERED BOTH!" "I'm not deaf but I am hard of hearing", (iwen Banks of Plymouth told us.
"My hearing problem gradually got worse over the years until it...
Category: Advertisement
Past and Present
Years Ago The following article appeared in the March, 1937 issue of THE LIFEBOAT: Fifty-two Lives Rescued.
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
Early in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer...
Category: Articles
Anchor-Shot and Grapnel-Shot
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
Category: Articles
On Service In a Motor Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 49 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November, 30th, 1934 - 63,862 On Service in a Motor Life-boat.1 By A. E. JOLLY, Motor...
Category: Services
Reform of the Mercantile Marine
A VERY remarkable change in public opinion on the subject of the British mercantile marine has been wrought within the last few years; and none of the current topics of the day engross so large a share of the grave interest of reformers,...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G.
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 121 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 53 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1934 63,663 H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G.
Presidential...
Category: Meetings