LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Articles
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
From volunteers to rescuees
Mike and Jan King have fundraised for a quarter of a century – but never thought they would be on the...
Category: Articles
Gladonia (1)
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
Coxswain H. J. Gawn
Coxswain Harry James Gawn, of Bembridge, who died on the 17th June, 1962, had served as coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat for 22$ years.
During this period Bembridge life-boat were launched on service 76 times and rescued...
Category: Obituaries
Returning from the Sands
The Walmer life-boat and her crew The 'last photograph is by Mr. Bert. Hardy, of Picture Post, and is reproduced by kind permission of that paper. The other photographs are by Mr. George Goldsmith Carter, author of Looming Lights, A True... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peggy
Ex pilot cutter HARTLAND COASTGUARD received a message from the British coaster Candourity at 0255 on Monday September 3, 1979, reporting the sighting of a red flare and a flashing light from a yacht some 13 miles north by east of Trevose...
Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Boatman's Licence
The Board of Trade have prepared a scheme for the issue of boatmen's licenses to people in charge of small passenger vessels which ply in inland or in estuarial waters, or go only short distances to sea.
The scheme,...
Category: Articles
We Skied Everest!
Crew Member Richard Jones joins youngsters Timothy and Daniel Cunningham who both completed 47 runs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs