LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1998 Aberdeen Arun; Jul 4, 25 and 26 D Class: Jun 29. Jul 4 (twice), Jul 14 and 26 Abersoch Atlantic 21; Jun 9, Jul 18, 20 and 23 Aberystwyth Atlantic 75 Jun 9. 14 (twice), 20, 21 and...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
• A new volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series is always welcome and in The Life-boats of Cardigan Bay and Anglesey (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 32s.) Mr. Henry Parry has maintained the traditions of accuracy and thorough- ness of the...
Category: Articles
Mr. J. M. Mawso, J.P., of Barrow
By the death of Mr. J. M. Mawson, J.P., of Barrow-in-Furness, on 20th November, at the age of seventy-five, the Institution has lost one of the oldest of its honorary secretaries of life-boat stations. He was appointed honorary secretary in...
Category: Obituaries
Bronze Medal. for Wick Coxswain.
Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...
Category: Articles
Crew Picture: the Crew of the Blue Peter Iv Andrew Northcote - Vellum Award Winner, Rory Bushe and Carey Morgan
Crew picture: The crew of the Blue Peter IV Andrew Northcote - Vellum award winner, Rory Bushe and Carey Morgan. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boy Eric
APRIL 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. the naval base reported a fishing boat, off the North Foreland, in need of a tow into harbour. She was the Boy Eric, of Lowestoft, on voyage, with a crew of two, to Ramsgate for repairs. A light S.W...
The 37Ft 6in Rother Class
The 37ft din Rother class lifeboat Shoreline is stationed at Blyth. The station honorary secretary is Dr Reginald Carr (I.) who is also Blyth's honorary medical adviser. He is a busy GP and when a call for the lifeboat comes while he is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Club Rescue Launch
Newbiggin, Northumberland - At 3.27 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, news was received that the sailing club rescue launch had broken an engine shaft while towing a dinghy out of difficulty near the Needle's Eye rocks. At 3.39 the life-boat...
The S.S. Georges Mabro (1)
FEBRUARY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. The S.S. Georges Mabro, of Alexandria, had been reported out of control to the south of Start Point, and the Salcombe motor life-boat put out at 1.40 P.M., but was signalled from...
A Group of 8- to 13-Year-Old Children Living In the Llandegai Area of North Wales Planned and Ran a Mini-Fete In Dr and Mrs Tideman S Garden Last September Raising £52 F
A group of 8- to 13-year-old children living in the Llandegai area of North Wales planned and ran a mini-fete in Dr and Mrs Tideman s garden last September, raising £52 for the lifeboat service. In the photograph are Heather, Susy and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs