LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.N.L.I. Medals for Irb Service
Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
FOUNDED IN 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST...
Category: Advertisement
Index to Advertisers
Aegis Insurance Services (Group) Ltd 110 Birds Eye Foods Ltd Outside Back Cover David Jolly (Tiller Master) 144 Maritime Book Society Loose Insert Mercantile Credit Inside Front Cover Fred Olsen Lines 140-141 and loose insert Peeks of...
Category: Index
Awards for "Calculated Courage"
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been awarded to seven men who put out in the Portrush life-boat to search for survivors from a Norwegian frigate on ist November, 1965.
At 9.16 that morning Mr. W. R....
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (29)
MARCH 2ND. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
An aeroplane had been reported missing, and it was thought that she might have come down at sea, but she had crashed on the beach. - Rewards, £12 9s..
Service to a Greek Steamer at Cromer
AT 6.25 in the morning of the 9th October, 1939, the Cronier coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles to the east. A breeze was blowing with increasing...
Category: Services
14 Men Rescued from Greek Motor Vessel
AT 2.40 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Portrush, Co. Antrim, life-boat station, Mr. W. R.
Knox, that the Greek motor vessel Argo Delos of Piraeus, a ship...
Category: Services
‘ YOU NEVER THINK IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOU’
Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly
Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...
Category: Articles
The Esthonian Steamer Mina (1)
Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 21st December the Esthonian steamer Mina, of Parnu, got into difficulties through her rudder shaft breaking.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
Rod James
Rod James Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 during the Bronze medal service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988. Crew Member James was awarded the Institution's Thanks on Vellum for his part in the service, as was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs