LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bravery at Torbay. Two Men Received Awards
A SERVICE which will be recorded on the station board with the curt statement "Stood by vessel" was recently carried out in such exceptionally difficult conditions that it has led to the award of a silver medal to the Torbay...
Category: Services
The Winters of Newhaven
WHEN Second Coxswain Stanley Winter retired from the service in 1954 a family record of 100 years' association with the Newhaven life-boat was inter- rupted. In 1854 Second Coxswain Winter's grandfather became a member of the crew...
Category: Articles
Rowing Raisers
No apologies for featuring RNLI fundraisers the Hythe Hookers again - these ladies are always seen to be up to something intriguing! On New Year's Day they dressed up as cops and robbers and took part in the annual Maldon little ship... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seniority
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.2 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Seniority, of London, that she had lost an anchor and was drifting towards...
A Small Boat
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and HoIyhead, Angelsey.—22nd March.
Searched without success for a small boat which was adrift and eventually made land in Co. Down after thirty-five hours at sea.—Rewards, Porthdinllaen,...
Lady Martin
After six days of gales from the S.E. to S.W. the wind changed on the 15th December to the N.W., blowing a moderate gale, with squalls of rain and a heavy, confused sea. During the afternoon the coxswain saw, about six miles S.E., a tramp...
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Category: Advertisement
Cliff walker revived
TREGANTLE BEACH | 21 JUNE
A woman who’d collapsed while walking up the cliff from Tregantle Beach in Cornwall was given emergency first aid by RNLI lifeguards. They moved the woman out of the...
Category: Articles
Ireland's Eye
AGROUND IN DENSE FOG Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.47 in the morning of the 7th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a steam trawler aground near the end of the North Pier. There was a dense fog with a light westerly wind and a calm sea. The...
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...