LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stainburn
At 5.35 A.M. on the 18th September it was reported that the Gull Light-vessel was firing guns, and also that a steamer could be seen on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat .Charles and Susanna Stephens promptly proceeded in tow of the Harbour...
Phoenix AX193
OCTOBER 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 1.30 in the morning a message came from the naval officer-in-charge at Appledore that phoenix AX193 - one of the concrete caissons used to build the breakwater of the invasion port on...
Four Bronze Medals for Shore-Boat Services
Newhaven (Sussex), South Shields (Northumberland).
THE Institution has awarded Bronze Medals for gallantry in saving life to four men, all four of whom ran great risk of losing their lives.
On the...
Category: Medals
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WELLS, NORFOLK.—A new life-boat establishment has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Wells, on the coast of Norfolk. There was a considerable length of coast in the district without a life-boat, and as vessels frequently...
Category: Articles
Tam o’ Shanter
APRIL 6TH - 7TH. - CLACTON, ESSEX. At 12.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a barge was showing signals of distress about five miles off Clacton, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.15. A...
Cornelia
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 13th of August, 1951, a barge was seen off Whitby Rock. The coastguard said she had made no dis- tress signals, but had shipped a large amount of water. At 9.28 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Bierum
Hoylake, Cheshire, and Rhyl, Flintshire - At 9.25 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the shipping agent to the m.v. Bierum informed the Rhyl honorary secretary that the vessel had gone aground a quarter of a mile east of Point of Air...
Below: Mrs Maud Russ of Portishead Branch Receives the Congratulations of Her Fellow Supporters Her 100Th Birthday
Below: Mrs Maud Russ of Portishead branch receives the congratulations of her fellow supporters on her 100th birthday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboats
AT HASTINGS on May 17 (above) a D class ILB, the cost of which had been given by J. H. Minet and Co., was presented to the station by E. G.
Denman (left), Managing Director of the Marine Division of Minets, and accepted by...
Category: Inaugurations
Sunday May 26 1974: North Berwick Ilb Blue Peter Iii Took Medical Assistance to a Boy Who Had Fallen Over the Cliff In a Bay Which Could Only Be Reached from Seaward T
Sunday, May 26, 1974: North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III took medical assistance to a boy who had fallen over the cliff in a bay which could only be reached from seaward. The boy was found to be too badly injured to be taken off by sea, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs