LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lawrence Grove Mbe
Member, Order of the British Empire Lawrence Grove MBE Morton and Port Eynon lifeboat station. - View image in PDF
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All creatures great and small
Ever since the days of horse-drawn launches, the RNLI has been great friends with the animal kingdom. Lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved dogs, cats, sheep, cows, horses, deer and dolphins.
Although the RNLI’s...
Category: Articles
HM Torpedo Boat Destroyers The Cherwell and Ettrick
At about 7.45 P.M. on the 20th -May two of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, the Oherwell and Ettrick, when near the Barber Sand steaming northward, ran aground. The weather was moderate, but the ships being unable to get clear fired signals for...
Bottom. the Dutch Lifeboat Service
Bottom. The Dutch lifeboat service operates a number of large rigid inflatables, this is the Johannes Frederic class which is capable of 36 knots.. - View image in PDF
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Irish Coxswain's Bravery. His Fourth Bronze Medal
COXSWAIN Patrick Power of Dunmore East, County Waterford, has achieved the remarkable distinction of winning the Institution's bronze medal for the fourth time. His award was for the rescue of six men from the Dutch motor vessel Jan...
Category: Services
Mistra, of Bosham
Swanage, Dorset - At 4.12 p.m. on 2nd July, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares just west of Broad Bench, and that there was a possibility that a second yacht was dismasted in the area. The...
Rally, of Selsey
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 23rd July the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in distress about half a mile N.W. of Selsey Bill. A strong S. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was...
A Gannet Aircraft (3)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Life-Boatman Overboard
A Rescue at Portrush.
A VIOLENT westerly gale, with gusts at 70 miles an hour, swept across the British Isles on 19th October, 1935, with loss of life and great damage to property ashore and afloat. Twelve life-boats were...
Category: Services
Below: the Red Arrows Put on a World-Class Show
Below: The Red Arrows Put On A World-Class Show. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs