LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ON 3rd November, 1910, the following notice appeared in the Press :— With a view to economy and to unity of effort and control, the work of collecting money for the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution hitherto done in certain directions...
Category: Articles
After Naming West Mersea's New Atlantic 21 Alexander Duckham on July 1 Another Brilliant Summer Day and Unveiling An Inscribed Plaque R a G Joseph Marketing Dir
After naming West Mersea's new Atlantic 21 Alexander Duckham on July 1, another brilliant summer day, and unveiling an inscribed plaque, R. A. G. Joseph, marketing director of Duckhams (I.) with S. R. Page, publicity manager, went aboard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Alhena
JANUARY 29TH-31ST and FEBRUARY 1ST.
- CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.50 A.M. information came to the Cloughey station from the coastguard at Tara that the S.S. Alhena, of Rotterdam, of 5,000 tons, laden with...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
Cromer (1)
CROMER, NORFOLK On the 26th October, 1941, the Cromer life-boat rescued the forty-four survivors of the crew of the S.S. English Trader, of London.
COXSWAIN HENRY G. BLOGG was awarded a third clasp to his silver...
Category: Medals
Flicks' a Newfoundland Dog Owned By Mr and Mrs M Rydin Collecting for the RNLI During Cowes Week Last Year
'Flicks', a Newfoundland dog owned by Mr. and Mrs. - View image in PDF
M. Rydin, collecting for the R.N.L.I, during Cowes Week last year. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Mrs. J. Warren. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1939
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
Presentation...
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On the rocks
Two sailors clung to a ledge beneath Welsh cliffs, lashed by waves with the tide rising around them
With the sea and wind driving directly onto the rocky shoreline, this would be an extremely...
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Black-Eyed Susan
At 11 A.M., the Life-boat again went out, and rescued the crew of five men from the schooner Slack-Eyed Susan, of Bideford, which had also gone ashore, and subsequently broke up. The Life-boat had to be pulled with great difficulty along the...
Book Reviews
• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.
The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...
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