LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceres, of Lyme
On the night of the 18th August, intelligence was received at Lynie Regis that a vessel was in distress, being anchored off a lee-shore in a heavy gale, 15 miles to the eastward of Lyme. At 4 A.M.
on the 19th, the...
The S.S. Araton
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, a local shipping agency asked if the life-boat would land an injured man from the S.S. Araton, of Stock- holm, which was lying two miles south-west of the Lightning...
Hilton
L O N D ON BOATSHOW Hilton III aSSDCHltintl With National Boat Shows In January 2003 the London Boat Show makes its final appearance at Earls Court, before gliding downriver lo the all-new ExCeL Exhibition Centre for 2004. So come along for...
Category: Advertisement
Suandra (1)
Fire HM COASTGUARD INFORMED the honorary secretary of Cardigan ILB station at 1224 on Wednesday, June 16, that a vessel was on fire four miles north of Cardigan Head. There was moderate visibility and a light westerly...
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...
Front Cover
Front Cover Exactly twenty years on - the same photo, but with different boats and different crews - see the News pages in this issue for the full story.
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Category: Photographs
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
April
Launches 23. Lives rescued 10.
APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber...
Category: Services
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RSPCA Bronze medal for lifeboatmen Nine crew members of West Kirby's D class inflatable lifeboat, the deputy launching authority and the station honorary secretary have been awarded the RSPCA's Bronze medal for rescuing two horses...
Fishing Boats including The Easter Morn
FEBRUARY 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. The records of the life-boat service are full of stories of gallantry, but it is nearly always gallantry of coxswains and crews working together. The opportunities for personal gallantry by single men are...