LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
Category: Articles
An Impressive Rescue at Newhaven
IT was just after dark on the 26th of March (at 7.12 p.m.) when the coast- guard at Newhaven reported a trawler drifting shorewards, something less than a mile south-east of the harbour.
Quarter of an hour later he said she...
Category: Services
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 11.36 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, news was received that six children were missing in the Freshwater area. They were last seen playing on the beach at 6.30. The lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 11.43. The...
Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 Class Lord Bortherton Photo Courtesy of Jeff Morris
Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 Class Lord Bortherton Photo Courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foreign Awards and Thanks
EWARDS or thanks for the help of 'e-boats have been received during ie present year from the Governments "[ five foreign countries, Belgium, Jenmark, Finland, Italy and the Jnited States of...
Category: Awards
A Sailboard
Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...
The Four Young Whitnalls (Left to Right) Timothy, Now 9 (In Cap), Simon, 10, Mark, 7, and Jolly Rebecca, 31/2, Who Wants to Be 'A Life-Boatman'.
The four young Whitnalls (left to right) Timothy, now 9 (in cap), Simon, 10 , Mark, 7, and jolly Rebecca, 3j, who wants to be 'a life-boatman'. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of IF. G. Whitnall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bronze Medal Service at Moelfre
ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...
Category: Services
Central London Committee
'ELBIE' the walking talking Lifeboat ANNOUNCES a CHARITY AUCTION in aid of the Royal National Life-boat Institution at BONHAM'S, KNIGHTSBR1DGE, WEDNESDAY, 25th May, 1977 18.50 for 19.15 hrs Viewing 24th and 25th May, 09.00 to...
Category: Advertisement
Book Reviews
Trinity House by J. GROSVENOR (Staples Press, 15/-.) is a factual and ably written account of the work of the great organisation which received its charter in 1514 and which today is responsible for so many essential services, including the...
Category: Articles