LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FRAMED letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., have been sent to Mr. C. J. Bean and and Mr. R. Swalwell, the crew of the Scarborough IRB, for their efforts when a child...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH SEPTEMBER 2 4TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just after two in the morning the coastguard told the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore on the Cairnbulg Briggs, a reef of rocks about two miles away...

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Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was drifting towards the entrance of the River Hum- ber but was not showing distress...

Truculent, tactless, and causing mayhem. No, not the lifeboat crew but Martin Clunes starring as Doc Martin, a GP who arrives in the small, sleepy Cornish hamlet of Port Wenn (better known to locals as Port Isaac). The six-part series stars... - View image in PDF

Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue in his own dinghy of two men on December 22, 1981. Coxswain Scott already holds three medals for gallantry... - View image in PDF

Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.

Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...

On the night of the 18th January signals of distress were seen in the vicinity of the Shering- ham Shoal, and the Life-boat Louisa Heart-well was launched as soon as her crew could be assembled. A very heavy sea was running, and...