LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Conference
Every four years the lifeboat nations of the world gather at a different venue to share and exchange information and technical expertise.
The 16th Conference was held in early June 1991 at Oslo.
Edward...
Category: Meetings
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.
THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...
Category: Inaugurations
Mr. J.S. Wood, of Hartlepool
Mr. J. S. WOOD, at one time secretary of the Hartlepool Port and Harbour Commission, who died on the 15th of May, 1953, at the age of 60, was for twenty years the honorary secretary of the Hartlepool life-boat station.
He...
Category: Obituaries
A Life-Boatman's Generosity. Mr. Richard Cowling. Late Signalman of Scarborough
IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.
Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...
Category: Donations
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. — 22nd January. Distress signals had been reported, and an all-night search was made, but without result.—Rewards, £20 9s..
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1949 and January and February, 1950. 112 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 19 lives.
THE MEN FROM THE PRU Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which...
Category: Services
Viking
MOTOR CRUISER FOUND IN TOW OF SMACK Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on the evening of the 9th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of reports that red flares had been seen in the direction of Buxey Sands, and at 10.5 the...
The S.S. Rocquaine
Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning of the 25th of September, 1951, the S.S. Rocquaine, of Guernsey; bound from Newport for Guernsey, signalled that three of her crew had been badly burnt by an explosion in her hold, and asked for the...
STEPHEN WYNNE
LIFEBOAT OPERATIONS MANAGER | DUN LAOGHAIRE
I was picked up by a lifeboat in 1970 when I was 12 and I joined the crew in 1975, so that’s about 40 years. I try to attend most shouts. It’s important to be there when the lads get... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs