LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The "Charles Dibdin."
The naming ceremony at Walmer, Kent, on 2Ist September. (Set page 176.). - View image in PDF
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Matfen
At midnight on the 8th of March the look-out man reported a vessel on shore.
A strong S.E. wind was blowing at the time and the sea was heavy. The Good Hope .was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the...
The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has a Day Off
The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has A Day Off. - View image in PDF
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The Spanish Trawler Tulipan Aground Off Monach Isles
'The Spanish Trawler Tulipan Aground Off Monach Isles. - View image in PDF
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN SWANSON, on his retirement, after serving for 34 J years as coxswain and 9 years as bowman of the Longhope life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and a pension.
To WILLIAM DYKE, on his retirement, after...
Category: Awards
Theodor, of Riga
WHITBURN.—The William and Charles Life-boat was launched at about 4.30 P.M.
on the 5th October and rescued the crew, consisting of six men, from the schooner Theodor, of Riga, which stranded on Whitburn Stile during a S.E....
Pasithea
HARWICH.—On the 16th February, at 6 P.M., information was brought by a Ramsgate smack that a large vessel was ashore on the Long Sand, and that the crew were in great danger. The Life-boat Springwett immediately proceeded there, but, on...
Guest Speaker at the Awards Ceremony Richard Branson
Guest speaker at the Awards ceremony Richard Branson with RNLI medal winners Fergal Walsh fright) and Nick Beale. Accounts of their medal-winning rescues can be found on pages 14 and 18 of this magazine respectively.. - View image in PDF
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Arbitrator
IBKLAXD, — As the trawling smack Arbitrator, of Wexford, was proceeding to the fishing-ground at about 8 A.M, on the 13th November she struck on the bar, and began to leak heavily, She hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the...
The Converted Naval Steam Launch Nasus
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 10th of September, 1952, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht appeared to have broken down and was drifting to the northward, but the coastguard stated that she was...