LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pride of the Ocean
ST. ANDREW'S.—The fishing boat Pride of the Ocean, belonging to St. Andrew's, and returning from fishing at Shetland, was seen making for the harbour, at about 5 A.M., on the 9th April, during a strong N.E. wind, and a very rough sea...
Boats
On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...
The Record Month by Month
1943 January . 32 76 February . 34 55 March . 33 42 April . . 23 10 May . . 32 24 June . . 29 9 July . . 27 15 August . 41 92 September . 29 42 October . 30 19 November . 49 31 December . 52 54 - - - 5 - - - 3 - - - 3 Totals . 411 469 Number...
Category: Annual Reports
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES. At 10.30 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1943, the 30- feet motor fishing boat Girl Lena, with a crew of four, was fishing off Stornoway. The sea was smooth, with a moderate north-west...
Category: Services
October (1)
KINLOSS, ELGINSHIRE. At 11.40 in the morning of the 27th August, 1941, it was reported to the Burghead coastguard hy the R.A.F. at Kinloss, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of Kinloss. Three men put out from...
Category: Services
Profile.,,
• MAJOR John Showell-Rogers, R.M., is the station honorary secretary at Poole, Dorset, where there is a 35-foot 6-inch Liverpool type life-boat, the George Elmy, and a Dell Q.uay dory inshore life-boat with the hull number...
Category: Articles
Captain William James Oxley, M.B.E.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM JAMES OXLEY, who has been honorary secretary of the Walton and Frinton life-boat station for twenty-three years, and who has been awarded the Institution's in- scribed binoculars, has been appointed a Member of the...
Category: Awards
Captain J B Leworthy (L)
Captain J. B. Leworthy (/.), a member of the Committee of Management, and Commander Peter Gladwin, chief staff officer (operations), formed the British delegation at the international lifesaving festival organised by the Societe... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medallists 1974: (l to R) Motor Mechanic Barry Pike (Torbay); Coxswain Ben Tart (Dungeness); Coxswain Albert Bird and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack (Aberdeen); Hel
Silver medallists 1974: (/. to r.) Motor Mechanic Barry Pike (Torbay); Coxswain Ben Tart (Dungeness); Coxswain Albert Bird and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack (Aberdeen); Helmsman Edward Brown and Crew Member Robin Middleton (New Brighton); Coxswain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs a Hambleton
Mrs A. Hambleton, chairman of Macclesfield Branch from 1985 to 1988. A member of the branch for over 40 years, Miss Hambleton was honorary secretary in 1948 and 1949 and chairman in 1973 and 1974..
Category: Obituaries