LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gold Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay With the Crew Who Sailed With Him In Storm Force Winds on Monday December 6 197
A gold medal for conspicuous gallantry: Second Coxswain Keith Bower of Torbay with the crew who sailed with him in storm force winds on Monday December 6, 1976, to the rescue of the crew of MV Lyrma. (/. to r.) Crew Member John Dew, Second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
A Readers’ Offer For All Who Love The Sea
READER OFFER In it, on it, beside it – for those who love the sea, the world’s ? rst glossy magazine on the subject will be launched in April by Signature Publishing.
The Sea magazine will cover all things marine, from news...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Calendar for 1943.
The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...
Category: Articles
A Book on the Life-Boats In the War
The story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939 to 1945 is told in "Storm on the Waters" by Mr. Charles Vinc«, publicity secretary of the Institution.
It will be published on December i6th by Messrs....
Category: Articles
How the Cornish Lifeboat Appeal Was Launched
EARLY in 1972 the Committee of Management of the RNLI decided to try to raise an extra £50,000 net in Cornwall to complete the total bill for the new Sennen and Falmouth boats.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, RD, RNR, Staff...
Category: Articles
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 8.4 on the evening of the 18th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff near Portpatrick. At 8.14 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out in a slight...
The Greek S.S. Aegaion
SERVICE TO GREEK SHIP At 1.15 a.m. on 24th August, 1965, a report was received that there was a sick man on board the Greek S.S.
Aegaion of Piraeus. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 1.32 in a light westerly...
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MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 3.15 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, a local doctor asked the honorary secretary for the services of the life-boat to take a man with a haemorrhage to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mary Stanford,...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Hutnber, Yorkshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 29th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had requested assistance in landing a sick man. The lifeboat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.50...