LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Terrible Life-Boat Disaster at Kingstown
and mercifully disasters resulting in the loss of a whole Life-boat crew are very few and far between, but an accident of this character took place, alas! at Kingstown on Christmas Eve, and was the worst which had befallen the Service for...
Category: Articles
A Long and Hazardous Service
COXSWAIN John King of Bridlington has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry for a service described in the official report as 'long, frustrat- ing and hazardous'. At the end of it the life-boat saved the life...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, once again attended the annual general meet- ing of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 2nd April, 1963. The meeting was an...
Category: Meetings
Fifty-Two Lives Rescued. A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
EARLY in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer English Trader, of London, ran ashore on Checkstone Ledge, at the entrance to Dartmouth harbour, owing to the temporary failure...
Category: Services
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 2 Distress Signals and Procedures
HAVING decided which are the correct distress signals to be carried according to the size of craft concerned and her particular marine activities (Schermuly's complete range of officially approved marine distress pyrotechnics was...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LOSS of Penlee lifeboat and her crew stunned people throughout Great Britain and Ireland and thousands of messages of sympathy from many parts of the world were received by the bereaved families. Before she was lost, the lifeboat Solomon...
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They Came to Plymouth
Lifeboats representing the lifesaving associations of France, the Federal Republic of West Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden made the voyage to the West Country last summer to be present for the opening weekend of the International Lifeboat...
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Melody
Skilful boat handling and teamwork played a major role in this rescue but, for New Brighton Helmsman Mark Bland, decision making was the difficult part. Here's Mark's personal account While working at my office at Safe Water Training...
The S.S. Meriones
JANUARY 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
In the early morning of the 22nd January,the S.S. Meriones, of Liverpool, stranded on the Haisborough Sands three-quarters of a mile east by north of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy. She...
WINDOWS INTO THE PAST
A stunning collection of glass plate negatives brings the RNLI’s lifesaving history into a new light
The RNLI’s Heritage Team are always on the look-out for artefacts and materials that document the lifesaving work of the...
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