LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailboard
Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
THBEE presentations of Centenary Vel- lums to stations have taken place since last summer—at Sunderland and Hartle- pool last October, and at Newhaven in April of...
Category: Articles
£53,000 Damage.
In three years of war the life-boat service has not gone undamaged by enemy action. Of nineteen of its life-boats which took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk in May and June, 1940, one, the Hythe boat, never returned, and...
Category: Articles
Two Aeroplanes
AEROPLANES IN COLLISION Padstow, Cornwall.—At 12.55 in the afternoon of the llth of June, 1947, the St. Merryn Royal Naval Air Station reported that two aeroplanes had collided in mid-air off Holywell Bay and asked the life-boat to help...
The Finest Service of 1928. Silver Medal Awarded to the Coxswain at New Brighton
THE Institution has awarded its Silver Medal to Coxswain George Robinson, of New Brighton, on the Mersey, and its Bronze Medal to each of the eight members of the Crew, for their gallantry in rescuing 23 men of the French steamer Emile...
Category: Medals
Notes of the Quarter
A MAJOR new boat building programme was decided upon by the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, at its February meeting. As anA Sister's Thanks The following is an extract from a letter received by Captain J. B. Jones, O.B.E.,...
Category: Articles
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local fishing boat Success, which had been out fishing all night, enquired by wireless at nine in the morning of the 20th cf May, 1948, what the condition was at the "harbour mouth. She was told that if she came...
125 Years Old
The Ketch Ceres, now sunk in Croyde Bay, entering Bude. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. The Duchess of York on Board the Arbroath Motor Life-Boat
With her are the Duke of Montrose, the Lady Helen Graham (Lady-in-Waiting), Mr. Robert L. Mudie, and Commander Drury, Chief Inspector of Life-boat*.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 288 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles