LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pensions for Gold Medallists
AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
Category: Committee
Prase
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1957, a vessel was seen ashore at French Point in Campbeltown Loch.
Later the vessel's owner asked for the life-boat to help refloat her on the...
The Isle of Man from Page 17
from page 17 married James Ritchie, whose family were the owners of the brewery Heron and Brearley, and she has stayed for a lifetime. Her present home, not far from the boathouse, looks out over Ramsey Bay, and as the years have gone by her...
Category: Articles
People and Places
RNLI lottery 'You need hands' was the watchword on the day Max Bygraves drew the winning tickets for the 34th national lottery on July 31, 1986. Mr Bygraves, who was appearing in a summer show at the Poole Arts Centre, kept the...
Category: Articles
The West German Tug Fairplay X ,and Netherlands Coaster Orca
German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her engine disabled, had...
M.F.V. Dumnonia
PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
Edinburgh and R. M. Ballantyne, 30 feet long, 7 feet wide, 10 oars.
THE Life-boat Edinburgh and R. M, Ballantyne was placed on this station in 1866.
Port Logan is a small bay in Wigtonshire, on the...
Category: Articles
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Obituary: Richard Evans BEM
Richard Evans BEM: a legendary lifeboatman It is with great sadness that theLifeboat reports the death of Richard Evans, aged 96, coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat from 1954 to 1970 and holder of two RNLl Gold Medals.
As well as...
Category: Obituaries
Top RNLI Awards
top RNLi AWARds The RNLI held its Annual Presentation of Awards in London’s Barbican Centre on 17 May, and Bronze Medals for Gallantry were awarded by HRH The Duke of Kent to Dr Christine Bradshaw (see page 16), Lifeguard Sophie...
Category: Articles