LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"The Brotherhood of Man:" A Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
DUBIXG the war our life-boat men were condemned by some people because they rescued those, who (in the opinion of certain folk) should have been left to perish. Some of these angry people wrote letters to the papers to ask why the men who...
Category: Articles
A Fine Service By the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-Boat
A VEKY fine service was performed by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat on the llth April, 1919, when she rescued six pilots from the pilot cutter Day Dream, of Dundee. Just before one in the morning the news was received that a ship had run...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A fearful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss...
Category: Services
The RNLI and me: Alexander McCall Smith
When bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith isn’t penning adventures set in Scotland and Botswana, he plots his own dramatic course on the water …
You published five books in 2015 alone – how do you manage to be so...
Category: Articles
Ned' the Barge Horse and Mr E Wrangles Who Was Sponsored By 140 People for £137 Were Two of the Participants In the Hertford Walk In Aid of the RNLI Along The
'Ned', the barge horse, and Mr. E. Wrangles, who was sponsored by 140 people for £137, were two of the participants in the Hertford walk in aid of the R.N.L.I, along the towpath of the River Lee from Hertford to Dobbs Weir last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew of the Portrush Antrim Life-Boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No 4) Whose Coxswain Is Mr R Mcmullan the Crew Are Wearing the New Life-Jackets and Protective Suit
The crew of the Portrush, Antrim, life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4), whose coxswain is Mr. R. McMullan. The crew are wearing the new life-jackets and protective suits.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Services
The Naval Salvage Vessel Salvage King
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
Early in the morning news was received at both stations through the coastguard, from the naval authorities, that the naval salvage vessel Salvage King was...
Rewards of the Royal Humane Society
IT has been our custom from time to time to record the noble deeds of our Life- boat crews, who, acting on the promptings of an innate heroism, have, during winter storms, performed deeds of such desperate courage and patient endurance as to...
Category: Articles
The King's Courtesy to a Brave Life-Boat Man
WHILE the King was afloat in April last j off the Scilly Islands with Mr. Dorrien- ! Smith, the President of the Scilly Isles Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in the latter's steam- launch, Mr. Dorrien-Smith was...
Category: Articles