LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Captain Terence Shaw,
1990.
Captain Terence Shaw, a founder member of North West Plymouth branch and honorary secretary and treasurer from 1973 to 1991. He was awarded a joint statuette with his wife, Ruth, in 1980 and a Silver badge in...
Category: Obituaries
Hotting up
UPKinsale lifeboat crew tackled their biggest casualty on 2 February when the relief B class Walters Lifeboat brought in the 35-tonne Paulona. The 12m fi shing vessel was heading for Baltimore when the engine’s temperature started to rise...
Category: Articles
Irb Launches on Service During the Months September, October and November, 1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Arbroath, Angus Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Barmouth, Merionethshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Blackpool, Lancashire Borth, Cardiganshire Broughty Ferry, Angus Bude, Cornwall Burnham-on-Crouch...
Category: Services
Bronze Medal. for Wick Coxswain.
Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...
Category: Articles
Dijon and Peebles (2)
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
The New Brighton Life-Boat Rescuing the Crew of the Emile Delmas, 24th November, 1928. The Finest Service of the Year
(It should be noted that in ordinary circumstances the mast would not be lying across the net, but the Coxswain was compelled to stow it, as both steamer and Life-boat were rolling heavily.) This is a reproduction of a painting by Mr....
Category: Drawings
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 3
IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.
About...
Category: Articles
Mountblairy, of Plymouth
Rosslare Harbour (Co. Wexford).
On the 20th October, the schooner Mountblairy, of Plymouth, was driven ashore about five miles from Rosslare Harbour in a whole gale, with a very heavy sea running. She lay surrounded by...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th January, 1914.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, G.B., C.M.G., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee
Search for Aircraft
IN the last quarter of 1957 there were a number of long and exacting searches by life-boats after aircraft had crashed. Unfortunately, as happens so often when aircraft come down in the sea, it was impossible to rescue any survivors. Details...
Category: Articles