LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Third Bronze Medal for Irish Coxswain
AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...
Category: Services
Pleiades
Swanage, Dorset. At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht whose sails had apparently been carried away seemed to be in difficulties a mile and a half off Peveril Point....
Cover Picture
by Maggie Murray/Format The five medallists arrive for a photocall at Tower Pier, on the Thames, before the Presentation of Awards at the Royal Festival Hall on 14 May 1991.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ramsey's Mersey Ann and James Ritchie
Ramsey's Mersey Ann and James Ritchie launches on a flag day. On the day of the Vellum service seas were breaking across the promenade on to the boathouse doors. Photo Roger Oram. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Workington - North Division
Workington's unique davit launch system for the station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in a strictly functional building just outside the Prince of Wales dock - at the root of the pier in the main photo - having been outside in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. During the morning six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
Gold Medal for Welsh Coxswain
Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate...
Category: Articles
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Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone Beach was...
Arranmore August 30 1986:
Arranmore, August 30, 1986: This station, off the north west coast of Ireland, can accurately be described as one of the outposts of the RNLI. The picturesque island is now linked to the mainland by a regular ferry service and so it was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blanche Moore, of Liverpool
On the 26th May, the Gertrude life-boat on this station put off, and succeeded in rescuing the whole of the crew of 36 men, belonging to the ship Blanche Moore, of Liverpool, which was totally wrecked during a strong wind and squally weather...