LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alfred (Alf) Manning,
Alfred (Alf) Manning, Margate lifeboat coxswain from 1966 until 1982. Alf joined the crew in 1946 and was appointed bowman in 1955, and second coxswain in 1958. Alf was awarded a coxswain's certificate of service and a long service badge...
Category: Obituaries
The Sea State During the Joint Service to Torridge Warrior
The sea stale during the joint service to Torridge Warrior can be judged from this photograph of the casualty under tow. When her sampsom post carried away Ilfracombe's lifeboat took up the tow from the fishing vessel's quarter posts... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Watters, who has been coxswain of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat since 1934. In 1947 Cox- swain Watters was awarded the bronze medal for the rescue of seven men from the auxiliary motor vessel...
Category: Articles
Northern Star
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Category: Advertisement
Top Citizen
Coxswain Noel Wight of Dunbar lifeboat recently received a citizenship award from the community council in his home town.
Noel (left) who has been on the crew for 35 years and is a popular figure in the town, received a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
and Miss Ursula Upjohn Disembarks from the 37ft 6in Rather Alice Upjohn at Dungeness
. . . and Miss Ursula Upjohn disembarks from the 37ft 6in Rather Alice Upjohn at Dungeness.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave...
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Isadora
The Motor Life-boat The Newbons was launched at 9 P.M. on the 26th June, on receipt of a message from the Coast- guard at St. Just that a vessel was ashore at Pendeen. The weather was fine.
After going as far as Cape...
Another Balloon Race
ANOTHER life-boat balloon race has been held, this time by the St. Albans and Harpenden branch, in connexion with its life-boat day, last September.
Altogether 800 balloons were sent up.
Each had a label...
Category: Branches