LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 268 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Fishguard Lass and Miss Beck
PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. On the 18th January fearful weather was experienced here, and the Life-boat George Moore was twice launched to the assistance of the crews of distressed vessels.
The wind was blowing a very heavy...
Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
THE Institution was represented in the Lord Mayor's Show, on 10th November, by a Life-boat and crew drawn by atractor. The description as it appeared in the programme of the show was :—• " The Ellen & Margaret of Seattle...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
DORNOCH FIRTH, SUTHERLANDSHIRE.— In January, 1886, the Local Residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat establishment on the shores of Dornoch Firth, a shipwreck having oc- curred there in the previous month, and...
Category: Articles
Miners and the Life-Boat Service
ON the 18th September a very successful procession took place at Ashington, and as a result of it and of a ball which followed, a sum of over £174 was raised for the Institution. Ashington is a min- ing village, and the Day was...
Category: Articles
The Lions Club of St.Ives Successfully Completed Its Most Ambitions Project Yet When During 1977 It Raised the Money to Pay for a New D Class Ilb at a Service of De
The Lions Club of St Ives successfully completed its most ambitions project yet when, during 1977. it raised the money to pay for a new D Class ILB. At a service of dedication on Easter Saturday led by The Reverend Di.uglas Freeman. ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Kildale and Harley (1)
FEBRUARY 3RD. - BRIDLINGTON, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About noon a message was received at Bridlington from the coastguard that the S.S. KildaleKildale was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes ten to twenty miles N.E. of Spurn, and that her...
On May 10 Hrh the Duke of Kent
On May 10 HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, visited lifeboat stations in Orkney. At Kirkwall he presented to Captain William Sinclair, coxswain of the lifeboat, the bronze medal awarded to him for the service on January 22... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Boat David Nancy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the harbour master telephoned that a man had been seen waist-deep in the sea on the training wall on the east side of the Walney channel, The wall was a quarter of a...