LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1958 has been won by Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St. Ives for the rescue of a party who were marooned in a cave on the 9th of August, 1958. A...
Category: Awards
Duchess of Leith (1)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
The Life-Boat Was the John and Sarah Eliza Stych, of Padstow, Temporarily Stationed at St. Ives
The Life-Boat Was The John and Sarah Eliza Stych of Padstow Temporarily Stationed at St Ives. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Lay
The steam trawler James Lay, of London, with a crew of fourteen on board, bound for Hull, laden with fish, grounded on Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th January in a thick fog. The sea was smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat the...
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
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Life-Boat House, Wembley
THE Institution took advantage of the fortunate coincidence that the British Empire Exhibition has been held in its Centenary Year, to erect its own house in the. Exhibition grounds. Life-boat House, Wembley, was very appro- priately placed...
Category: Articles
Two Scottish Lifeboats Capsize and Right
ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...
Category: Services
Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type
THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...
Category: Articles
We Ask the Questions
What is involved in running a successful RNLI branch and how does it work? Lifeboat speaks to two branch officials from very different corners of the Institution - John Dennison, chairman of Uckfield and Heathfield branch in Sussex, and...
Category: Articles