LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxwains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
Below (L-R): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick
Below (l-r): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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A CLIFF SAVE AT 2.25 p.m. on 10th June, 1972, the coxswain of the Clovelly, North Devon, life-boat was advised by a member of the public that two men were trapped on the cliff face below Gallant Rock to the west of Clovelly. Gesturing hand...
Income and Expenditure for 1937
Expenditure.
s. d.
s. d.
2,965 13 - 37,538 11 3 19,475 17 5 23,603 18 4 13,781 11 9 52,420 6 8 266,261 18 4 Life-boats :— 66,625 18 10 710 4 _' 31,074 8...
Category: Accounts
Two Fishing Boats (1)
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. On the night of the 11th the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat was launched, in very bad weather, to search for two overdue fishing boats. She could not find...
Ann
AUGUST 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 in the morning a report was received from returning fishermen that a boat was believed to have capsized as she left the fishing grounds in Pegwell Bay. A strong south-south-west breeze was blowing and...
'A radical new approach'
How are we tackling the drowning problem around our coasts?
In 2012, we reached a crossroads in our mission to save lives at sea. We had the best possible kit, training and crew, yet there...
Category: Articles
The Tilbury Ferry Edith
NO FOOD ON BOARD At 6.47 p.m. on loth November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the Tilbury ferry Edith, on passage from Harwich to Tilbury, was anchored near South Shoebury buoy because of thick fog without food, water or...
Rumania and the S.S. Loide-Honduras
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.35 on the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor mechanic heard a distress message on his wireless set from the tug Rumania. The tug said that she was aground on the Long Sand and needed help. At...
Fishing Boats (4)
On the following day the Life-boat was again taken out and assisted two fishing boats which were making for the harbour in a very heavy sea. The first boat was got safely ia, and the other one, acting on the warning of the Life-boat men,...