LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boatman's Log
France Honours the Life-boat Service A Decoration for a Cornish ex-Coxswain ON the 14th of July last, a reception was held at University College, South- ampton to mark the celebrations of France's national day, Le Quatorze...
Category: Articles
Strathleven of Glasgow
The Edinburgh andR. M.BalUmtyne life-boat, at Port Logan, saved 15 men from the barque Strathleven, of Glasgow, wrecked in Float Bay.
Come On
DORNOCH FIRTH AND EMBO.—Signals of distress having been seen on the evening of the 20th January, the Life-boat Daisie was launched, and found the Come On, an open fishing-boat belonging to Gardenstown, Port of Banff, with a crew of six men,...
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
Scheme of Co-operation between the Institution, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the British Red Cross and St. Andrew's Ambulance Association.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
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Mystery, of Glasgow
Weston-sup&r-Mare, Somerset. — At about 6 P.M. on the 9th December, 1937, the pier-master at Clevedon informed the life-boat station that the Walton Bay coastguard had had a vessel anchored off Hook Buoy under observation since the...
Mazurka, of Dundee
Early on the morning of the 9th March, signals of dis- tress were seen binning in the direction of the Cross Sand. The alarm was at once given, and the Winterton life-boat was con- veyed along the beach and launched; but the wind and sea...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRON.
Her most Gracious Majesty the...
Category: Advertisement
Britannia, of North Shields
On the night of the 12th January the barque Britannia, of North Shields, bound from Mauritius to Greenock, got on shore, in moderate weather, on the north side of Port Logan Bay; the crew saving them- selves by climbing over the rocks at low...
A Message from the Chairman of the RNLI Commander F R H Swann OBE RNVR
THOSE who receive THE LIFE-BOAT do so, in the main, for services rendered to the R.N.L.I., as crew members, branch officials, members of the YLA or in other capacities. Our appeal for national membership is not therefore addressed to...
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Charon of Styx
Flamborough and Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a small yacht was reported to be in difficulties off Flamborough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 5.40 into a moderate south south easterly...