LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THERE were fewer launches of life- boats in 1951 than in 1950, and fewer lives were rescued, but it was a year of outstanding gallantry, and more than twice as many medals were won, two silver and eight bronze. They were won by coxswains,...

don't forget your flares lads! You may never need them - we hope you never do ! But it makes good sense to carry a pack of signal flares . . . as important as your lifejacket. Just in case THE WORLD'S BEST BY SCHERMULY See page 351...

Thank you to all 131 entries in the Lifeboat winter flash fiction competition. We were delighted so many of you were inspired to put pen to paper. There was a clear winner – a favourite in the office and with flash fiction writer Eleanor...

JANUARY 8TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.

At 10.40 in the morning the port war signal station at Teesmouth reported two vessels in distress off the port. The Teesmouth lifeboat crew were assembled and...

MV Lovat sinks ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Penlee lifeboat at 0637 that MV Lovat had broadcast a mayday call and that her crew were abandoning ship.

The reported position...

AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...

An air of cheerful expectancy surrounded the Docklands Sailing Centre, Isle of Dogs, on 25 April 1991 for the visit of HRH The Duchess of Kent to name the relief Mersey class lifeboat Marine Engineer. The morning dawned bright enough, but... - View image in PDF

THE Institution has presented to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hants, a silver medal which it awarded forty-one years ago to Private James Carroll, of the Royal Irish Regiment.

In May, 1893, Private Carroll and three...