LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Raf Search and Rescue Crew 5 at Sr Mawgan: In Centre of Back Row (Third, Fourth and Fifth) Des Lavelle, P. J. Whitehouse, President Newatiar Branch, and Flight Lieut.
RAF Search and Rescue crew 5 at Sr Mawgan: in centre of back row (third, fourth and fifth) Des Lavelle, P. J. Whitehouse, president Newatiar branch, and Flight Lieut. Chris Hooper.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain William McAuslane
Coxswain William McAuslane of Troon died on the 16th of January, 1960, at the age of 83. He was appoin- ted bowman in November 1913, be- coming coxswain in 1920. He retired in 1942. In 1941 Coxswain McAuslane won the silver medal for...
Category: Obituaries
Review
' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.
12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...
Category: Articles
Four Double Rescues
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
Category: Services
Ex-Coxswain John Watters
EX-COXSWAIN JOHN WAITERS Ex-coxswain John Watters died on 2nd September, 1965, aged 66. He had been coxswain of Fowey life-boat for more than 25 years and was awarded the RNLFs bronze medal for gallantry in 1947 f°r a difficult and...
Category: Obituaries
How Selling Souvenirs and Gifts Buys Lifeboats
THE RNLI has been selling souvenirs for well over half a century. The word 'souvenir' indicates what the main purpose originally was.
Small items which were expected to appeal to visitors to lifeboat houses were put...
Category: Articles
Handing Over Ceremony:
Handing over ceremony: Caterham and District branch handed over a 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat to Newhaven lifeboat station at Timber Hill recreation ground, Caterham on Saturday December 29, 1984. The lifeboat was funded out of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mervic (2)
Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...
East Coast (1)
VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...
Few Lifeboathouses Are Protected By a Castle! Conwy's Built In 1985 Is on the Tourist Trail
Few Lifeboathouses Are Protected By A Castle! Conwy's Built In 1985 Is on the Tourist Trail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs