LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy and a Yacht
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society
A MEETING of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society was held at their offices, Hibernian Chambers, London Bridge, on the 26th February last, His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President, in the chair, the following members of...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Skandinavian
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.
The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...
Coming Up the Cliffs
(For an account of this service, see opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Campbeltown's Lifeboat Named
Campbeltown's new Severn class lifeboat was named Ernest and Mary Shaw by donor, Mrs Mary Shaw, at a naming ceremony at The Old Quay in Campbeltown on 28 August.
The lifeboat was provided by a generous gift from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
To the Help of the Invasion Port
Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...
Category: Articles
St. Gerald
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 8.10 a.m. on igth June, 1964, the Arranmore lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in difficulties off the lighthouse. It was half tide with a moderate to fresh north-easterly...
Weston-Super-Mare Life-Boat Rescues Sea Cadets
(See page 263). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Difficult Cliff Operation
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain C. J.
Crockford and crew of the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, life-boat for the...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OP SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: JAMES ROBSON, 31J years coxswain of the North Sunderland life-boat.
WILLIAM H....
Category: Awards