LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
July
Launches 27. Lives rescued 15.
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in...
Category: Services
Silver Medal Service at Cromer
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 109 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 67 LIVES RESCUED - 63,058 from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 26th, 1932 Silver Medal Service at Cromer.
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Category: Services
The "Jolly Roger" (With a Mixed Crew) Collecting At Blackpool
(with a mixed crew) collecting at Blackpool. - View image in PDF
This land vessel was turned out by the Tramways Manager.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. H. M. Smardon, M.B.E., of Torbay
MR. HENRY MADICK SMARDON, of Torbay, who died at Brixham on the 28th of October of last year, was a noted figure in the town, where he was affectionately known as H.M.S. Brixham. He was a retired school- master and a man of many...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain William Miller, of Eyemouth
Coxswain William Miller, of Eye- mouth, Berwickshire, who died on 13th February, at the age of sixty-eight, served as coxswain for twenty-six years. He was appointed coxswain in 1901, and retired in 1927, when he was awarded a certificate of...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
Category: Services
Coxswain/Mechanic Ronald Cannon of Ramsgate
Coxswain/Mechanic Ronald Cannon of Ramsgate first joined the crew in 1964, became bowman in 1967 and coxswain/mechanic in 1976. He was awarded a long service badge in 1984 and a silver medal in 1986 in recognition of the courage and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Galilee, Provider A, Venus, Pilot Me II, Success, etc
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 8.30 in the morning on the 24th of February, 1950, fishermen reported that one of sixfishing vessels which had put out in the early hours, was making for harbour.
The sea off the entrance was broken...
A Pillar Collecting Box on the Cliffs at Sennen Longships Lighthouse Is In the Distance
A pillar collecting box on the cliffs at Sennen. Longships lighthouse is in the distance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mowlie Froom Presents a Centenary Tapestry to CoVswain Arthur Harman and Ken Broad Clacton's Honorary Secretary; Jack T'Room Is on the Left In Her Tapestry Mrs
Mo/lie Froom presents a centenary tapestry to Co.vswain Arthur Harman and Ken Broad, Clacton's honorary secretary; Jack t'room is on the left. In her tapestry, Mrs Froom embroidered the names of Clacton's lifeboats and coxswains... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs