LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the west coast of Ireland. He has been cox- swain since October, 1928, and is one of the seven coxswains who won the gold medal for conspicuous gallantry during the war of...
Category: Articles
Hrh the Duke of Kent Addresses the Gathering Before Presenting the Awards
HRH The Duke of Kent addresses the gathering before presenting the awards. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Dresden
— The s.s.
Dresden, of Hartlepool, whilst bound from Hamburg to Hartlepool with a general cargo, struck on the Longscar Rocks at 11.30 P.M. on the 9th April.
In response to her signals the No. 2 Life-boat...
The Schooner-Rigged S.S. Cerigo (2)
WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.
—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Second Coxswain Cuthbert Cornall, of Black- pool, who was appointed at the begin- ning of 1917..
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
Collection of Mayors
A report in the spring 1985 issue of the journal about ex-mayors and mayoresses partaking in collecting on lifeboat day in St Albans some 50 years ago gave rise to the committee of this branch deciding to revive the custom. Letters were sent... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 29, 39, 44, the following launches on service were made during the months September to November, 1967, inclusive.
Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Claudia of Belfast
On the night of the 23rd March, signals of distress were heard in the direction of the Cardiff Sands, the wind-blowing a strong gale from S.W.
at the time. The Baroness Windsor life- boat was at once launched, and it was...
Annie Scot, of Arbroath
On the 30th November, the barque Annie Scott, of Arbroath, was stranded during a strong wind and hazy weather on the Cross Sand, off the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat went off and succeeded in saving the vessel's crew of 9 men. They...