LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Silver-Medal Service at Aberdeen
THE Institution has awarded to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, of Aberdeen, a second-service clasp to the silver medal which he already holds, and special awards to the crew, for the rescue on 5th November last of two men of the crew of eight of...
Category: Medals
Windsor Lad II
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 31st of May, 1954, the weatherworsened while fishing cobles were at sea, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched. A strong breeze was blow- ing from the...
Attempted Rescue By Two Lytham Mechanics
AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...
Category: Services
Photographic Competition
THE first prizes in the Institution's photographic competition, the terms of which were announced in the September 1961 number of the Life- boat, have been awarded to :— MR. A. E. TURNER, honorary treasurer of the New Romney and Romney...
Category: Articles
IRB Saved Two from Cruiser
THE thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum, for the rescue of two men from a cabin cruiser, have been awarded to Robert Chalk, helmsman; Gordon Easton, motor mechanic; and D. Morgan of the Southend-on-Sea IRB.
At 5.32 p...
Category: Services
This Remarkable Picture By Peter Foskett
This remarkable picture by Peter Foskett aboard the Lowestoft lifeboat gives some idea of the atrocious conditions during the service.
Red House Lugger can seen in the lee of the ferry Norkin while Aldeburgh's Mersey... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dunkirk
Nineteen life-boats of the Institution formed part of the "fantastic armada" of little boats which evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. These life-boats brought off from the beaches thousands of men. All the life-boats were...
Category: Articles
Betsy, of Sunderland
On the night of 9th January, 1859, the schooner Betsy, of Sunderland, ran aground off Newbiggen Point, on the Northumberland Coast, the night being dark, and a strong sea setting in from the east at the time. On signals of distress being...
A Pilot Coble
On the 12th August, during a strong wind from the N.E., a pilot coble was seen in distress off this place, the crew being afraid to cross the bar in the very heavy sea running at the time. The Brightwell life-boat quickly went to their...
Friends, of West Hartlepool
It blew a hurricane here from N.N.W. on the 12th February. About seven o'clock in the evening the schooner Friends, of West Hartlepool, went ashore near the jetty. The Quiver life-boat promptly went out to her through the very heavy sea...