LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1938.
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Category: Accounts
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XII.—GROOMSPORT.
The Florence, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, ! 10 oars. j A LIFE-BOAT was first stationed at this small i fishing port by the Institution in 1858; in 1867 it ! was replaced by the present boat, the...
Category: Articles
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club Took Part In An Underwater Sponsored 'Fin' Along the 2 Lh Mile Coronation Channel—A Flood Relief Channel In Spalding the 'Fin' Was Swum In Darkness St
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club took part in an underwater sponsored 'fin' along the 2 lh mile Coronation Channel—a flood relief channel in Spalding. The 'fin' was swum in darkness, starting at 7pm, and over £100... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JAMES E. BUMBLE, on his retirement, after serving for twenty-two years as coxswain of the Sheringham life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To DAVID ARTHUR, on his retirement, after serving...
Category: Awards
None (36)
JULY 5TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Red flares had been reported, but a search, during which a floating mine was seen, found nothing. - Rewards, £6 12s..
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NOVEMBER 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
An airman was reported to have baled out, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 12s..
September
Launches 36 Lives rescued 49 SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the...
Category: Services
Isaac Clark of Runswick: When He Retired Last Year He Had Given 59 Years of Service to His Station—20 Years As a Crew Member 34 As Winchman and Five As a Shore H
Isaac Clark of Runswick: when he retired last year he had given 59 years of service to his station—20 years as a crew member, 34 as winchman and five as a shore helper—and his connection with the lifeboat extended back even longer than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Amy II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.45 on the night of the 25th of August, 1950, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a message from the British ship Cornea. She had the Dutch yacht Amy II in tow, disabled by an...
The Danish Container Vessel Dragor Maersk
Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...