LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre
The first winner of the gold medal for gallantry for ten years. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss Torbay
On the night of the 13th August the coast watcher at Babbacombe reported that a speed-boat was in difficulties, close to the shore, between Babbacombe and Anstey's Cove, Torquay. The east wind was very right, but a very strong easterly...
Later the Queen and the Duke Moved Among Their Guests on the Palace Lawns: Never Before Have So Many Lifeboat Supporters Been Found at One Place at One Time
Later the Queen and the Duke moved among their guests on the palace lawns: never before have so many lifeboat supporters been found at one place at one time.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ship's Doctor's Gratitude. The Story of a Whitby Rescue
The Story of a Whitby Rescue.
[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special...
Category: Articles
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
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Maraat V
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1953, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned a message to the Caister life- boat station from Palling that a vessel had gone ashore half...
Franklin Mint Limited,
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The S.S. Isleman and the S.S. Kia
FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a doctor and bring in from a steamer shipwrecked men whom she...
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Galway Bay. At noon on the 28th of April, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the local doctor asking if the life-boat would bring a doctor from Rossaveal to Kilronan for consultation about a patient. At 12.15 the life-boat...
Busy Holiday Months
THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.
In 88 of those 169 launches the...
Category: Services