LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Constellation Aircraft Disaster
ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disastrous accident occurred when a K.L.M.
Constellation aircraft crashed in the Atlantic more than 80 miles from the west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine people lost their lives. Life-boats...
Category: Services
March
MARCH Launches 43 Lives rescued 45 MARCH 2ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
The Admiralty tug Seaman put out from Montrose with a battle target in tow and the life-boat coxswain on board as pilot. A strong northerly wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
Ina, of Blyth
Blyth, Northumberland. — At about 11.50 A.M. on the 8th December, 1937, it was reported to the coxswain that the motor fishing boat Ina, of Blyth, with a. crew of two, was out fishing.
The weather had got worse since she...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pensions
On the closing of the St. Andrews life-boat station the following awards have been made: DAVID FENTON, 8 years coxswain, 9f years bowman and 22J vears a member of the crew, the COXSYVAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a...
Category: Awards
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN WILLIAM CROWLEY, of the Fenit life-boat Hilton Briggs.
A member of the crew since 1928, Coxwain Crowley, who is 58, was appointed bowman in 1936, since which time the life-boat has been launched 58 times and has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jane, of Workington
On the llth December, the brigantine Jane, of Work- ington, and the schooner Prudence, of Aberystwith, drove ashore, in a very strong wind, near the North Pier, at Ramsey, Isle of Man. The Two Sisters life-boat put off through a heavy sea,...
Simon Hall Is Presented With His Bronze Medal By Michael Vernon a Deputy Chairman of the Institution Photograph By Courtesy of Jeff Morris
Simon Hall is presented with his bronze medal by Michael Vernon, a deputy chairman of the Institution. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Levant, of Brixham
The No. 1 Life- boat, the Sisters, on this station, assisted a steam-tug to convey the schooner Levant, of Brixham, into port on the llth No- vember. It was blowing hard from E.S.E., i when the Levant struck and ultimately was ! driven...
Otto, of Moss
On the 26th Jan., when the Norwegian brig Otto, of Moss, was driven ashore at Eastern Green, in. Pen- zance Bay, the Life-boat launched out during a heavy southerly gale oLwind and in a high sea, and succeeded in saving from destruction the...
Heart of Gold
Margate, Kent.—At 3.2 on the after- noon of the 5th of September, 1956, the coastguard reported that a fishing- vessel was showing distress signals about three miles north-east of Mar- gate. At 3.12 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil...