LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Sisters, of Aberystwith and Smack David, of Cardigan
On the 26th October, while it was blowing a heavy gale from the north, with a high sea on, two vessels at anchor in the roadstead hoisted signals of distress. The same valuable life-boat was immediately launched, and went to their assistance...
Chr. Christensen
Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...
The New U.S. 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat
The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...
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Silvia Onorato
Walmer, Kent.—On the fourth of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No. 2, rescued 30 lives from the Italian steamer Silvia Onorato. The coxswain was awarded the silver medal for gallantry, the motor mechanic the...
M.B.E. for Isle of Wight Secretary
CAPTAIN A. G. COLE, R.N.R., honorary secretary of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat station from 1934 to 1952, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List of 1953.He was awarded the...
Category: Awards
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 7.10 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, it was learned that the mother of one of the crew members of the Coningbeg lightvessel was dangerously ill. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 7.30 in a light variable breeze and...
Libby Purves Introduces All at Sea During the Launching of the Book By Fontana
Libby Purves, introduces All at Sea, during the launching of the book by Fontana and the RNLI at The Marine Society on March 5. With her are (r) the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, and (I) Ray Kipling, public relations officer,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Phyllis Duckworth,
MAY 1998 Mrs Phyllis Duckworth, former chairman and secretary of the Caversham branch. Mrs Duckworth was a member and chairman of the Reading and district branch for many years until 1979 when she founded the Caversham ladies guild which...
Category: Obituaries
M.B.E. for Norfolk Coxswain
Coxswain Theodore Neilsen, of Wells, Norfolk, has been made a member of the Order of the British Empire. The services for which the award has been made have not been published. Coxswain Neilsen, went with the rest of the fishermen of Wells...
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Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., of St. David's
IN the New Year's Honours Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, and for twenty-one years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St.
David's, was made...
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