LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Top Photo: the RNLI Also Bestows Awards to Other Recue Organisations
Top photo: The RNLI also bestows awards to other recue organisations or members of the public for acts of bravery Claran Doyla of the Carda Underwater unit was awarded the RNLt's Bronze Medal for a harrowing rescue of three people from a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lives Lost
Thirteen life-boatmen lost their lives at sea or died on their return. Three of the thirteen were killed by the enemy. One of the three was killed in the lifeboat of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, when she was attacked by a German aeroplane; The...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (39)
MARCH 26TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but an R.A.F. launch picked up two of her crew, who died later, and the three others were believed to have been trapped in the aeroplane. -...
A Motor Boat
MOTOR BOAT BEACHED Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.58 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat south of the lookout had broken down. The coxswain studied the boat's position...
Islander
The Wreck of the "Islander." A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in...
None (12)
FEBRUARY 25TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. Flares had been seen, but nothing could he found. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued. A Service By Ilfracombe, Appledore and Clovelly
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1950 - 76,899 Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued A Service by Ilfracombe,...
Category: Services
St.Ives Lifeboat the 37Ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall
St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall, returning at 0700 on October 17, 1980 from escorting the French trawler Floralie in gale force winds. A big breaking wave can just be seen coming up astern. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...
Category: Meetings
Surfboards
An 11-year-old girl and her father were surfing on holiday in North Cornwall when the high tide swept them away. It was early evening on 10 August when a horrified mother watched her daughter and husband drifting further and further away...