LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launceston, of Sheilds, and Artic Hero, of Goole
During very severe weather on the llth February the Life-boat Huddersfield went off, in reply to signals from the Hasborough light- ship, and brought ashore 15 men who had formed part of the crews of the barques Launceston, of Shields, and...
De Ruyter
At 10.57 a.m. on I5th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler De Ruyter of Zeebrugge was in need of assistance in St. Ives Bay. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando, and Eva Child was launched at 11...
Cyclists Gather Round the Camp Fire
Cyclists gather round the camp fire. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Record of Rescues In 1967
1967 month January February March April May June July August September October November December Number of times life-boats called out on service 65 49 85 66 69 117 144 154 122 113 60 59 1,103 Lives saved by life-boats 25 25 67 23 67 98 67...
Category: Services
Awards Presented at the Royal Festival Hall
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting the Committee of Management has awarded ten Bars to the Gold Badge and forty-eight Gold Badges.
BAR TO THE GOLD BADGE Mrs Margaret Driscoll Burnmouth Branch: Honorary...
Category: Awards
Silver Spray
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a man in the crab boat Silver Spray was signalling for help off Zone Point near the entrance to the har- bour. At 12.50 the life-boat...
The S.S. Meath
HOLYHEAD.—The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was called out on service on the 1st February by signals of distress shown by the s.s. Meath, of Sunderland, which had stranded at Penrhyn Point in a strong gale from the W.N.W. and a very heavy sea....
Dancing for the Life-Boats
Goathland Plough Stotts in a Yorkshire village on Plough Monday. They are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their revival. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Just in time
Beaumaris lifeboat was called out to a mayday on 25 May.
A 7m boat had a rope caught around her propeller. Without power, she was drifting fast – when the lifeboat arrived on scene she was just 3m away from the rocks off...
Category: Articles
Below: Martin Ward and Greg Spray
Below: Martin Ward and Greg Spray outside the operations room being built at Perranporth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs