LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twelve Hours at Night on the Goodwins
ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
Category: Services
Coxswain William Fleming, G.C.
WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.
He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...
Category: Obituaries
(Inset 1990) Has the Cut-Away Topsides and Standard Wheelhouse of the Later Boats
While The Final Boat Duke of Atholl (inset, 1990) has the cut-away topsides and standard wheelhouse of the later boats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1880
Jan. 1.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Insti- tution, with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to the EARL of DUMORE, and 51. to three fishermen, in acknowledgment of their gallant services in putting off in an open boat, and proceeding,...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1930. 1,000 Per Cent Profit
FOE many years the Life-boat Day has been one of the Institution's most successful forms of appeal. It still remains so, in spite of the criticisms made in the Press of this form of appeal on account of the very large number of charities...
Category: Articles
The Centenary: In London. Gold Medallists Decorated By the King
DURING its first century the Institution awarded its Gold Medal for gallantry and conspicuous service in saving life from shipwreck, ninety-five times. Fourteen Gold Medals were also awarded for other forms of service to the Institution, but...
Category: Medals
Poster Competition
The results of The Birmingham Post's children's poster competition are as follows: seniors (11 to 16 years): 1st—David John Brown, aged 15, of Fabian Crescent, Shirley, Solihull; 2nd—Lyn Bonner, aged 11, of Mayswood Road, Solihull;...
Category: Articles
Medex 87
A NAVY Bomb Disposal team tackles still active wartime relic, caught in the nets of a fishing vessel.
A party of 10 anglers, adrift in their disabled boat, float into the danger area just as the wartime explosive...
Category: Articles
Gerlisa
Aground in a storm IT WAS BLOWING A GALE from the south south east, gusting to storm force 10 at times when, on the evening of Friday December 12, 1986, the honorary secretary of Clogher Head lifeboat station received news that a fishing...
Life-boat Exhibitions
IN the early summer of 1962 there were an exceptional number of life-boat exhibitions in various parts of the country, ranging from the opening of a new display centre at Exmouth to a major historical exhibition at Bradford; from the Irish...
Category: Articles