LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alex Thomson And Dee Caffari (pictured)
Round-the-world sailors Alex Thomson and Dee Caffari (pictured) were just two of the 700 people who signed up as RNLI members at the London Boat Show in January.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat and a Dinghy
MARCH 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel coming in reported that she had found a small fishing boat and a dinghy with no one on board, and the life-boat made a wide search for her crew, but found nothing.- Rewards, £4 5s..
The S.S. Foam Queen and another Boat
NOVEMBER 3RD. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At eight in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the Fairlight coastguard that a steamer was sinking one mile south of Hastings. A moderate south-byeast wind was...
Gallant Services at Newhaven and Runswick
Three Bronze Medals Awarded.
THERE were heavy seas round the coast whole gale was blowing at the time, and at the end of November, and on the 26th the Motor Life-boat and two tugs put out and 27th of that month ten...
Category: Services
A Rowing Boat and a Motor Boat
JULY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A rowing boat had got into difficulties and a motor boat which went to her aid broke down, but both boats got in unaided.-Rewards, £10 10s. 6d.
The Motor Boats Peggy II and Sheila
NOVEMBER 18TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE During the afternoon two local motor boats were reported overdue, and at 5 P.M. the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched to search for them . A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate swell....
Irish Coxswain's Third Medal.
Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, who has already won the Institution's gold and bronze medals, has now won its silver medal for saving an Irish steamer and her crew of 35 men. The steamer's engines had failed and heavy seas...
Category: Articles