LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
The Motor Sprat Boat Terry
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.8 P.M. on the 1st November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor sprat boat was in distress off Pakefield.
She was the Terry, of Lowestoft, homeward bound laden with sprats and carrying a crew...
One Man Who Undoubtedly Owes His Life to the Fitting of a Light on His Lifejacket Was Coxswain William Carter Who Was Washed Overboard In November 1966 When The
'One man who undoubtedly owes his life to the fitting of a light on his lifejacket was Coxswain H'illiiim Carter, who was washed overboard in November, 1966, when the Teesmouth lifeboat was launched in a gale gust ing to 90... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Member of Committee of Management
REAR-ADMIRAL R. St. V. Sherbrooke, V.C., C.B., D.S.O., has been co-opted to the Committee of Management.
Rear-Admiral Sherbrooke, who lives in Newark, Notts., joined the Royal Navy in 1913 and was awarded the Victoria Cross...
Category: Committee
Rug-Making for the Institution
As recorded in The Life-boat for last September, the Honorary Secretary of the Cobham (Surrey) Branch, made a rug in the shape and colours of the Institution's flag for an official of the Sudan Government Dockyard at Khartoum, giving the...
Category: Donations
Coxswain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer (1)
Twice awarded the Institution's gold medal for great gallantry. Twice awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry. Awarded the medal of the Order of the British Empire by H.M. the King.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
LIFE-BOAT HOLED BY CASUALTY A SMALL BOAT in a dangerous position off the West Hoyle Bank on 27th August, 1971, led to the Hoylake, Cheshire, life-boat Thomas Corbett being launched at 10.27 a.m.
The wind was west north west...
Mabel E Holland In the Ice During Her Four-Year Round-The-World Voyage
Mabel E. Holland in the ice during her four-year round-the-world voyage.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Before and After - the St.Davids' Tyne Class Lifeboat Garside
Before, and after - the St Davids' Tyne class lifeboat Garside makes a splash after being named by HRH The Duke of Kent on 2 June 1989. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Martin Cavaney Photography). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Steamer Chrysanthy Star and Energetic (2)
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...