LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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HELP FOR SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 6.30 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local doctor needed the life-boat's help to transfer a sick child from the Aran Isles to the mainland as no other suitable...
The Barrels Lightvessel
MOTHER WAS DYING At 5.10 p.m. on 23rd July, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the services of the life-boat to land a member of the Barrels lightvessel crew whose mother was dying. It was a fine day with a smooth sea and light airs...
The North Goodwin Lightvessel
LIGHTVESSEL CREWMAN BROUGHT ASHORE Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on Monday the 1st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the North Goodwin lightvessel was very ill. At 4.40 the life-boat...
Cover Picture
Coxswain Arthur Liddon of Dover joined the lifeboat crew in 1950. He became assistant mechanic in July 1952, second coxswain in April 1966 and coxswain/mechanic in 1967.
He was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby's New Tyne Class Lifeboat City of Sheffield
Whitby's new Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield at her naming ceremony on 28 July 1989. Alongside her is the station's D class inflatable and in the background one of the town's former lifeboats Mary Ann Hepworth. Inset: HRH... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Steenvoorden
Helmsman Cleethorpes D class lifeboat Bronze medal 30 July 1989 In confused seas of up to 10ft and winds which touched Storm Force 10 Helmsman Steenvoorden searched for and rescued five canoeists. Driving rain reduced visibility almost to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wave Dancer
Fishing trip on the rocks Anstruther - Scotland South Division A Glenrothes man's fishing trip ended on the rocks on 24 July, 1988 when engine failure on his 25ft cruiser Wave Dancer caused the boat to drift on to rocks by a nearby...
Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., R.N.
FROM the moment that Her Majesty's fine frigate the Galatea* left our shores in the spring of last year, under the command of the youthful Duke of Edinburgh, to visit our colonies in the southern hemisphere, and to convey to them in...
Category: Articles
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‘THIS BRAVE OLD SEAMAN’
I thought you might be interested in the enclosed taken from The Seamen of the Downs by the Rev Thomas Treanor, c1890s.
‘… There is a Norse flavour...
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Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefigwa refer to the number* of the Life-boaa OetaUet on pages 42-B3.) A Friend, per Pembroke Denman, Hon. Mrs. Jos., 152. Jacomb-Hood, Miss E. H., Roberts, Mr. W., the late,...
Category: Donations