LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Polly
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 15th July a telephone message was received by the coastguard that a vessel was drifting to the westward with a signal of distress flying, and asking for the assistance of the Newquay...
Ramsgate Crew Honoured
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
Category: Services
Award for Sixteen Year Old Boy
A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD boy, Arnold Togneri, has been awarded an inscribed wristwatch for the rescue of a girl off Dunbar, East Lothian, on the afternoon of nth April, 1965.
Arnold Togneri and two other boys, John and James...
Category: Awards
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, Founded In 1824, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, FOUNDED IN 1824, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN...
Category: Advertisement
A Family Affair
The two sets of brothers and sisters who are crew members at Lough Swilly. From left to right: Peter Barnett, Maria-Claire and Dawn Stevenson and Mark Barnett.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Killin, of Greenock
CATSTER, NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH.—At P.M. on the 19th March, the lights of a vessel, supposed to be on the Barber Sand,were observed from this station, and the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, proceeded to her assistance. A snowstorm from the N....
A Motor Boat
MOTOR BOAT BEACHED Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.58 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat south of the lookout had broken down. The coxswain studied the boat's position...
Santagata
Walmer, Kent. — At 7.39 in the morning of the 24th of December, 1950, the Deal coastguard reported a message from the Italian motor vessel Santagata that she was aground on the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and in need of help. She was...
Solstad (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor...
A Grand Finale
RNLI crew members from Brighton, Littlehampton and Poole took part in two displays at the last ever Royal Tournament at Earls Court on 22 July.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs