LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Kirkcudbright Life-Boat Crew
Left to right: James Poland, A. Allan (honorary secretary), George Parkhill, Junr. (winchman), James Parkhill, A. J. Hastings, F. Gallacher (second-coxswain), George Parkhill (coxswain), J. Maxwell (signalman), Angus Fairweather (motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Record In the Rain
Having achieved an all-time branch record at its Flag Day last year, Tadley branch knew it had to do something a bit special for its 1998 Flag Day in June.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A 'Day' at the Races...
Garford branch held a Race Night on 20 March which also included supper, dancing and a raffle.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Richard Eglon, Whitby
Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...
Category: Obituaries
November
NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
Allegrity
Fahnouth, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the morning of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were seen off Greek Point. There was a strong south- south-west wind blowing, and the sea was rough. At...
Teasel (2)
Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
Foreign Life-Boat Services
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1951 - 77,528 Foreign Life-boat Services BEFORE the war The Life-boat pub-...
Category: Services