LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1958 has been won by Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St. Ives for the rescue of a party who were marooned in a cave on the 9th of August, 1958. A...
Category: Awards
His Models Help the RNLI
£2,700 or more. Through HQ Scottish Command help was given under 'OPMAC (Operations with Military Assistance to the Civil Community). The location was reconnoitered by the 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., and plans were drawn up...
Category: Articles
Stanmore Branch
Members of Stanmore branch profited well from outdoor souvenir sales last summer. Here they are in Victorian dress to comply with the requirements of a garden party staged at the Grims Dyke Hotel, the former home of librettist W. S.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Petit Jean Yves
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.55 on the night of the 9th of March, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was firing flares at the south-east end of Gugh Island. At 11.10, when the life-boat Guy and Clare...
Barranquilla
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 4.58 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that the motor vessel Marchion Enterprise had taken the yacht Barranquilla in tow with a broken propeller shaft coupling...
Obituary
THE Institution has lost by death a number of its workers and friends since the last issue of The Life-boat was published. Notices of their work for the Institution will appear in the next number..
Category: Obituaries
Storjohann
ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—A vessel was seen in distress at the south end of Eamsey Island, at 8 A.M. on the 18th December. The Augusta Life-boat put off to her, and pulled across the sound through a heavy sea. The vessel had then...
Thyra
Shortly be- fore 3 A.M. on the 28th November, a telephone message was received from Thorpe Coastguard Station, stating that a steamer was ashore and in need of assistance. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was very promptly launched, and...
Moringen
ABERDOVEY.—The brig Moringen, of Drammen, Norway, timber laden, stranded in a strong N.N.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 16th June and became a total wreck. On receipt of news of the casualty, the Life-boat Thomas Nieeolls Stratford was...
Professo
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd October, to the assistance of the brig Professo, of Tvedestrand, Norway, bound from Sundswall for Ramsey, with a cargo of timber. She was lying...