LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 134 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 33 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1937 65,196 H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
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Category: Meetings
HM The Queen honours RNLI eight
Commitment to fundraising, education and innovation has earned eight RNLI volunteers a place on the 2015 Queen’s New Year Honours list.
Included in the group is Captain Hugh Fogarty (pictured above), whose 30-year career...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE year 1903 has come and gone, and we are glad to be able to congratulate most cordially all the Life-boat Saturday workers throughout the United Kingdom on the almost unexpected success which accompanied their zealous and self- denying...
Category: Services
Silver Medal for Sheringham Coxswain
AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
Category: Services
The American Steamers Am-Mer-Mar and The Luray Victory, of Los Angeles
JANUARY 30TH - 31ST. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.20 at night, just after the lifeboat had returned from the American steamer Am-Mer-Mar, which had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands, but had got off without help, the Deal coastguard reported another...
A Gallant Search at Dunmore East
AT 11.45 P.M. on the 14th January, 1938, the civic guard at Tramore, Co.
Waterford, reported that lights had been seen at sea, possibly from a ship in distress. The crew of the motor life-boat C. and S. was assembled, but a...
Category: Services
Give it a go: Walking the coast
With a combined total of more than 10,000 miles waterproof boots. to explore, our coastal paths are some of the most epic walking routes in the world. Alex Ellis-Roswell, almost 8 months into his 2-year coastal walk that will...
Category: Articles
The Port Talbot Irb Going to the Aid of a Man Trapped Under a Capsized Dinghy. the Rescued Man Alongside the Irb Supported By the Swimmer. a Specially Equipped Swimmer Bringing to Safety
The Port Talbot IRB going to the aid of a man trapped under a capsized dinghy. The rescued man alongside the IRB supported by the swimmer. A specially equipped swimmer bringing to safety the rescued man.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P.
WE much regret to have again to record the death of another tried friend and valuable supporter of, the Shipwreck Institution, in the person of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., its late esteemed Chairman. Although he had occupied that office...
Category: Obituaries
The Danish Cargo Vessel Lone Dania
Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...