LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
North Cornwall Visit of the Duke of Kent President of the Institution to Five Stations In North Cornwall
Five lifeboat stations in North Cornwall were visited on June 27 by our president, HRH The Duke of Kent. Such great interest did His Royal Highness take in all he was shown and in all the lifeboat people he met—crew members and their wives,...
Category: Articles
Awards Presented By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at the Royal Festival Hall on 22 May 1990
Silver Medal for Gallantry Coxswain Alan Thomas, Tenby, Dyfed.
On 22 September 1989 the Tenby Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad launched to the assistance of three fishing vessels in difficulties off Worms Head. The...
Category: Awards
Two Motor Life-Boat Inaugural Launches: Arklow and Wick
Two Life-boat launches have taken place this year, those of the Motor Life- boats at Atklow in County Wicklow, and Wick in Caithness-shire.
The Arklow Boat, which is a Self- Righter, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, ! fitted...
Category: Inaugurations
Queen Mab
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK. — A telegram was received from the coastguard reporting a vessel in distress ofi Bnrnham Flats, on the 19th March, and as she was showing a signal for help the Life-boat Alfred S. Qenth put off to her assistance, at 1.45...
Hundreds of Eager Walkers Took Part In a 20-Mile Hike to Raise Funds for the Lifeboat Stations In North Kent
Hundreds of eager walkers took part in a 20-mile hike to raise funds for the lifeboat stations in North Kent. The hike, organised by the Medway branch, was started by lifeboatmen from Sheerness and the walkers tramped from Upnor Sailing Club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Mr. H. SUTCLIITE-SMITH,* in recognition of his valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the Bradford and District Branch, the Gold Pendant and the Record of Thanks.
To Mrs. RICHARD DAVIES, in recognition of her...
Category: Awards
A Vampire Jet Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...
The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia (2)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of November, 1953, the Lade coastguard telephoned the Dungeness life-boat station that the S.S. Perou, of Havre, had reported that she had been...
A Night With the Ramsgate Life-Boat. One Hundred and Twenty Lives Saved
I.—DISASTERS AT SEA. THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
To lie awake listening to the storm,—to hear the rush of the wind, now moaning in the chimney, now thundering at the windows, against which the rain beats and hustles,—to...
Category: Articles
Reise working with the Dredger Queen of Holland
Humber, Yorkshire - At 12.25 a.m.
on 13th October, 1968, it was learnt that a small boat with five men aboard was ashore near Patrington Haven. As the tide was ebbing the small boat was in no immediate danger. The boarding...