LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OP SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: JAMES ROBSON, 31J years coxswain of the North Sunderland life-boat.
WILLIAM H....
Category: Awards
Two Kayaks
Canoeists rescued in unseasonal Force 9 gale The two kayaks which got into trouble off Achill Island in the early afternoon of 20 May 2002 were perhaps unlucky to experience such unseasonal weather. With visibility down to one mile, in rough...
A Dinghy
Two men on sandbank IT WAS at about 7.45 p.m. on August 4, 1973, that Mr J. R. Stephen, a Trinity House pilot, was informed by Mr Colin Bull that Mr Bull's brother and another man were adrift in a 7' dinghy off the oil jetty of...
"Sublime Impertinence."
OUR District Organizing Secretary in I the North of England has sent us the | following story as an example of " the i value of the sovereign and the power of ; suggestion." It is an excellent example also of the gift, invaluable...
Category: Articles
Sidelights on Stations
WHEN Miss Grace Monro gave £1,000 to be divided largely between the life-boat crews and helpers at Holy Island, North Sunderland, Penlee and Sennen Cove during 1964, the Holy Island crew decided to express their gratitude by sending her...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been recently founded at Wicklow, and a life-boat on Mr. BEECHING'S prize model modified in correspondence with the boats on the Institution's plan has been...
Category: Articles
Weston-Super-Mare:
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drill
LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...
Category: Articles
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NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.
Elm Grove
Buckie, Banffshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of Febru- ary, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Wick radio had received a message from the motor fishing boat Elm Grove, of Buckie, that a fisherman...