LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund both received cheques for £475 in March as the result of a fire engine pull from Cheltenham to Tewksbury. The event saw Cheltenham branch members, together with local fire fighters... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishing Clipper, of Yarmouth
At 11 P.M., on the 24th January, 1868, guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Light Vessel, and lights of distress were seen in Yarmouth Roads. The large life-boat was at once got out, but the gale was so strong, and the weather so thick and...
The Henry Vernon
Served at Tynemouth and then at Sunderland from 1911 to 1935. Launched on service 55 times. Rescued 272 lives Two gold and six silver medals awarded to members of her crews for gallantry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Greek Medal for the Institution
To the foreign honours conferred on the Institution on the occasion of its Centenary has now to be added a silver medal from Greece. On 12th January of this year the Naval A.D.C. to the Greek President wrote : " The President has...
Category: Awards
The Imperial Airways Aeroplane Boadicea
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen...
The Norwegian Fish Carrier Arnoytrans
Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....
The Angling Boat Blue Fin
Nine rescued TYNEMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Tynemouth lifeboat station at 1511 on Sunday April 11, 1982. to tell him that the angling boat Blue Fin appeared to be in distress south of Tyne Piers. Eleven minutes...
The Institution's President In Malaya
WHEN the Institution's President, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, returned from her visit to Malaya at the begin- ning of December 1952, the Institu- tion sent to her the following telegram, signed by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.,...
Category: Correspondence
The Royal Bank of Scotland
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