LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...

Coxswain Coyde and Mechanic Harris of Torbay Who Received Awards From The Institution For The Service To The Northwind. - View image in PDF

A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI

4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...

DECEMBER No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 1.30 p.m. on 19th December, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran was showing distress signals about eight miles south of Chickens Rock...

"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...

Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 6th of February, 1948, the motor barge Glen- wood, of Rochester, bound for Newport in the Isle of Wight, got into difficulties off Dumpton Gap. She was seen by the North Goodwin Light-vessel, which sent...

On the 23rd January, 1939, seven members of the crew of eight of the St. Ives life-boat were lost when the boat capsized while on service to an unknown vessel.

COXSWAIN THOMAS COCKING was posthumously awarded the bronze...

On the 4th of November, 1951, the Coverack life-boat rescued the crew of seventeen of a Spanish steamer. For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 284..