LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
First Knight
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...
J.B.S.
Signals of distress were reported to have been seen in Church Bay, at about 11.15 P.M., on the llth February. The Life-boat therefore proceeded to the spot and found the brig J.B.8., of London, at anchor close to the rocks. After consulting...
The S.S. Keynes
Walmer, Kent. — At 10.58 on the morning of the 10th of November, 1950, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the police had reported a wireless message from the S.S. Keynes, of Lon- don. She had a man on board who was in need of immediate...
Pride o' the Clyde
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 28th of February, 1952, a life-boatman picked up on his wireless set a message from the motor fishing boat Pride o' the Clyde, of Tarbert, that she was aground at Skipness Point and...
Viking
Two saved after ten-hour service in south westerly gale Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Waveney class lifeboatBarham was involved in an arduous, ten-hour service to a yacht on 10 July 1988. The service, in gale force conditions, has been...
Phaedra
30-mile tow to safety for yacht adrift among rigs The rescue of two people from a yacht kept Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat at sea for 12 hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 28 September 1988. More than nine hours were spent towing the...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 8. Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury and District Branch
MAJOR ARTHUR THOMAS FISHER founded the Salisbury Branch of the Institution in 1910, has been its Honorary Secretary ever since, and is still its Honorary Secretary at the great age of eighty.
Born on May Day in 1843, he is...
Category: Articles
Donaghadee Co Down and Portpatrick Wigtownshire
The distance between Donaghadee, Co Down and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, is approximately 22 miles and is one of the trickiest sea crossings in UK waters. On one Saturday in July 1985, after waiting a week for a favourable weather forecast,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pulling Their Weight for the Lifeboat
Many local organisations and clubs in Filey have arranged special fund raising events throughout the year to help fund Filey' s new Mersey class lifeboat, due on station early in 1991. But none can have been more spectacular than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top Box
Michael Ashley, south east regional manager, presented the Roderick cup to Phil Barry, the proprietor of the Beachcomber Cafe, Barton-on-Sea, the winner of the annual competition for the top collecting box The ladies in the photograph are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs