LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St.Alban's and District
With the RNLI advertisement '£5 buys him a pair of boots' in mind, St Alban's and District branch borrowed a set of protective clothing to highlight the need to raise funds. Branch member Alan Edmunds donned the clothing... - View image in PDF
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Malcolm Wood Second Officer of Townsend Thoresen's Baltic Ferry
Malcolm Wood, second officer of Townsend Thoresen's Baltic Ferry walked 200 miles for the Harwich lifeboat. The sponsored walk from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Whitbv High Light in Yorkshire look II days and raised over il ,000. Malcolm... - View image in PDF
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‘SHE WENT QUICK’
With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety
Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...
Category: Articles
James Campell, of Shelburne
On the 21st October, the John Gray Bell life-boat, sta- tioned at this place, put off and rescued the crew of 11 men from a small boat belonging to the barque James Campbell, of Shelburne, N.S., which had stranded on the North Bank, about 2...
Lord Forster Presenting the Vellum to Miss Stephenson, of Boulmer
Beside Miss Stephenson is Mrs. Stanton. Behind her from the front of the platform to the back are: Coxswain Cross (Humber), Coxswain Dobson (Donna Nook), and Coxswain Fleming (Gorleston). On the front row of the platform from left to right... - View image in PDF
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The Soviet Trawler Urbe
In the early hours of the 17th of October, 1958, the Lerwick, Shetland Islands, life-boat rescued the only three survivors of the Soviet trawler Urbe. A full account of this service, for which Coxswain John Sales was awarded the silver medal...
Lady Norton a Member of the Committee of Management Presented the Rnli 1977 Public Relations Awards on the Jetty of the Central Feature—Brighton Marina—On the Fir
Lady Norton, a member of the Committee of Management, presented the RNLI 1977 public relations awards on the jetty of the central feature—Brighton Marina—on the first Sunday of the show. One was to members of that staunch band of lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Helmsman; Crew
helmsman; Crew Members John Ashford, Brian Gaunter and Derek Winning were taken ashore together with a bucket stretcher (itself on trial) and an Ashford first aid pack. The best ledge from which to embark the boy was 35ft above the sea, but... - View image in PDF
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Unflagging Support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (R)
Unflagging support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (r) hand a cheque for £225 to Falmouth harbour master and lifeboat honorary secretary, Captain David Banks.
Their Platinum II Roadshow had raised the money... - View image in PDF
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Handing Over the Helm
Handing over the helm ~ Following the retirement of Skegness Coxswain/Mechanic Paul Martin, the new man at the helm is previous Second Coxswain John Irving (pictured left/.
Ray Chapman (right) who remains as senior helmsman... - View image in PDF
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