LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Colours paraded Kilkeel lifeboat crew member Earnest McKee, escorted by fellow crew members Geoffrey Annett and John Fisher, carried the colours of the RNLI at the National Service for Seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 20... - View image in PDF

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk.—At 11.20 on the night of the 25th of July, 1956, the Superintendent of the local Trinity House depot rang up to say that a man in the Gorton lightvessel was sick. He asked if the life-boat would take...

IN the list of awards to honorary workers in the last number of the journal, Mrs. F. H. Thornton, who received the record of thanks, was given as the "President of the Huyton Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Liverpool." It should...

It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: November 1982 Mr G. T. Paine, MBE, president of Dungeness station branch, after serving as chairman from 1931 to 1982. Mr Paine was awarded the gold badge in 1963, a bar to his gold...

DURING April, May, June and July the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recogni- tion of their services in the cause of the Institution:— To Mr. S. J. R. LEGEHTON, on his...

Falmouth’s inshore lifeboat crew was involved in a large and unusual rescue operation on 9 June when a pod of dolphins became stranded in Porth Creek on the Percuil River. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, more than 20 had already died,...

WEXFORD, IRELAND.—At midnight on the 4th January, during a very strong gale from S. by E., a light was observed from a vessel which was apparently ashore in South Bay. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen were at once summoned, and...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the tug Superman asking for the life-boat to take four men off a sinking hulk three miles south of...