LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain H T 'shrimp' Danes Presents the Lifeboat Cup to the Captain of Gimmingham the Winning Team In Cromer's 1975 Football Final
Coxswain H. T. 'Shrimp' Danes presents the Lifeboat Cup to the captain of Gimmingham, the winning team in Cromer's 1975 football final.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Townrow of Frome, Somerset,
MrsTownrow of Frome, Somerset, was proud to see the outcome of her funding of an IBI-type D class lifeboat as it passed en route to Howth,Co. Dublin.
(Pictured centre with the RNLI's Sarah Sleigh and Hugh Fogarty.)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medal for the Year's Best Paper
THE Constantine medal of the Man- chester Association of Engineers has been awarded to Mr. R. A. Oakley, Sur- veyor of Life-boats, for the best paper to be presented to the Association dur- ing the session 1959-60. Mr. Oakley read a paper...
Category: Awards
The Converted Brixham Trawler Forseti
Selsey, Sussex. At 9.36 on the morning of the 18th of November.
1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the converted Brixham trawler Forseti of Newhaven was ashore off Selsey Bill. At 10.4 it was...
Alva Bay
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1953, the coastguard tele- phoned that the tanker Alva Bay, of London, which was .one mile south-east of Mumbles Head, had reported that she had a very sick man on...
Six of the Seven Life-Boatmen Who Were Present at the Centenary Thanksgiving Service
From left to right:—ex-Coxswain Holbrook, of Bembridge, hie of Wight; ex-Coxswain Robert Burton, of Berwick-on-Tweed i Second-Coxswain George Newman, of Worthing Coxswain Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw; Coxswain Daniel Murphy, of... - View image in PDF
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Princess Marina and the Bishop of Lewes at Shoreham Ceremony
(See page 561). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The H.M Tug Boat Diligent
About midnight, on 14th January, signals of distress were ob- served from a vessel apparently ashore on the Gunfleet Sands, and a telephone message was sent to the Gunfleet Light- house, asking for information. Shortly afterwards further...
The Service In 1942.
In 1942 life-boats rescued 596 lives and helped to save 43 boats and vessels from destruction. Life-boatmen won three gold medals of the Institution, six silver and 29 bronze, and four British Empire Medals..
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
A sponsored marathon swim was undertaken by four young men in aid of Thurso ladies' life-boat guild funds. About £300 was raised. The swim continued from the evening of Friday, llth December, until 6p.m. on Sunday, 13th December,...
Category: Donations