LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
TORQUAY, DEVONSHIRE.—On the 2nd May a large four-masted barque was observed at anchor in Torbay flying a signal for assistance. The Coastguard reported the matter to the Harbour Master, and within a quarter of an hour of the crew being...
Category: Services
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1933.
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59 0 6 ••• • •• •••• ••• •• ••i B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats and Life-...
Category: Accounts
The S.S. English Trader
SILVER AND BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON OCTOBER 26TH - 27TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About eight in the morning a message came from the Cromer coastguard that the Yarmouth...
Motor Vessel Aground Off the Irish Coast
ON the 22nd October, 1961, the motor vessel Halronell, on passage from New- port, Monmouthshire, to Haulbowline, Co. Cork, encountered heavy weather off the Coningbeg lightvessel, and her bridge was damaged. Her master deci- ded to return to...
Category: Services
Donaghadee Harbour During the Naming of City of Belfast Photograph By Courtesy of Colin Watson
Donaghadee harbour during the naming of City of Belfast, photograph by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss E. M. Jordan, of Dover
The Institution has lost, by the death of Miss E.'M. Jordan, of Dover, in April of this year, one of its latest, but one of its most enthusiastic honorary workers.
She became the Honorary Secretary of the Dover...
Category: Obituaries
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (1)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
Shields, of Cork
On the 18th June the Iris Life-boat also went out to the assistance of the brig Shields, of Cork, which had gone on the Mahon Rocks, off the coast of Wexford, while the wind was blowing from the W.S.W. The Life-boat remained by the vessel...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
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AUGUST 14TH. - FLAMBOROUGH , YORKSHIRE. Some people had been marooned in the cliffs, but when the lifeboat was launched her propeller was fouled by rubbish, and when she was ready to go she was not needed. - Rewards, £8 11s..