LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WESTON-SUPER-MARE. — As the S.S. Welsh Prince, of Newport, was leaving the pier at Weston-Super-Mare for Bristol, at 6.30 on the evening of the 22nd September, with upwards of forty passengers on board, and a crew of six men, a hawser by...

A SECOND edition has been published of The Book of Flags (Oxford Univer- sity Press, 155.), by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., and Mr. I. O. Evans, F.R.G.S., which was first published in 1950 and reviewed in The Life-boat for...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 16th of March, 1961, the Trinity House depot informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was needed on board the Helwick lightvessel.

The weather was fair. There was no...

FATHER WAS ILL Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 2.30 p.m.

on 13th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Holyhead informed the honorary secretary that the father of one of the crew members of the Morecambe...

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When is an emergency not an emer- gency ? One answer might come from the crew of the inshore rescue boat at St. Ives: when it is a drifting bottle.

At 8.25 p.m. on 29th May Captain T. Stevens, honorary secretary at...

ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...

Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...