LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...
Category: Obituaries
London International Boat Show 1979
EARL'S COURT, JANUARY 4-14 THE COMBINATION OF BLIZZARDS and transport strikes at the beginning of January might have seemed enough to scupper any exhibition—but not the London Boat Show. In spite of these difficulties and a stand which...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat People
AMONG THE AWARDS announced in the Birthday Honours list were: Knight Batchelor: Charles Keith Frossard, Bailiff of Guernsey. Sir Charles is a vice-president of Guernsey branch.
KCVO: John Michael Moore, CB DSC.
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Category: Articles
Bravery at Torbay. Two Men Received Awards
A SERVICE which will be recorded on the station board with the curt statement "Stood by vessel" was recently carried out in such exceptionally difficult conditions that it has led to the award of a silver medal to the Torbay...
Category: Services
A Small Boat from Kingsley
Clovelly, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th cf May, 1948, the Rev.
H. C. A. S. Muller, of Appledore. landed in a small boat from the motor pleasure boat Kingsley, of Barnstaple, and reported that the boat's...
Heavy mettle
16 October 2011: RNLI lifeguards on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, were called to help three surfers stranded in 1½m surf with a heavy backwash from nearby cliffs. Lifeguard Adam Taylor says: ‘We made our way...
Category: Articles
The S.S. President
At 1.5 A.M. on the 6th December a message was received, stating that a steamer was ashore at Druridge Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Mary Andrew were at once called, the Life-boat was launched at 1.30 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...
The Iron Barque Atlantic, of Swansea
In consequence of information brought into this port by the fishing smack Summer Cloud, at noon on the 12th April, the steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, and made for the Long Sand, a shoal at the entrance...
Onward
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 1st December, at 4 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded, during a strong E.S.E. wind and heavy sea, to the aid of a vessel which was signalling for assistance. She proved to be the barque Onward...