LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (15)
MARCH 4TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT, AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. A steamer was reported to have been torpedoed, but neitherlife-boat could find anything, and news was received later that other vessels engaged in the search had found her. - Rewards :...
Blackburn Rovers
INJURED MAN At 2.35 p.m. on 28th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Grimsby trawler Blackburn Rovers in Bridlington Bay had an injured man on board. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate...
Winner of the Silver Medal: Mr. K. Derham In His Dinghy
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Category: Photographs
Right: Mr Vic Cole With His Mersey Model and the Police Team
Right: Mr Vic Cole with his Mersey model and the police team, Sergeant Geoff Thompson and PCs Alan Neasham, lain Wylie and Steve Morse, who all gave up three weeks' leave to make the trip. Photo Steve McClean, Wiltshire... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
L–R: Edward Allen Presents The Award In Memory Of His Father To Architect David Bissonett
L–R: Edward Allen presents the award in memory of his father to architect David Bissonett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Plymouth: Coxswain David Milford (Right) Presents His Fellow Crew Members to the Queen
Plymouth: Coxswain David Milford (right) presents his fellow crew members to The Queen following the naming ceremony of the station's new Severn Class lifeboat Photo: Plymouth Evening Herald. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline and Storm Force
Membership survey LAST YEAR questionnaires were sent to 2,000 Shoreline members in a survey which aimed to find out more about membership to help future recruiting.
Over 1,000 completed forms were returned and analysed by...
Category: Articles
Coxswain James Bumble
Coxswain James Bumble of Sheringham, who also held the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 5th of June, 1958. The service for which he was awarded his medal was carried out during the last war. The Canadian steamer Eaglescliffe Hall had...
Category: Obituaries
Ever Ready — Kent Ferry Exercise
The unexpected can often make an exercise more real than anyone intended. This is how Ramsgate lifeboatmen passed an extra test of skill with flying colours. Photographs are by courtesy of Jim Byrne, the story is told by Georgette...
Category: Articles
October (1)
PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....
Category: Services