LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THUBSO, N.B.—During a gale of wind from the W.S.W., with rain, on the 26th November, the schooners Caroline and Phoenician, at anchor in Scrabster Eoads, exhibited signals of distress, in response to which the Life-boat Charley Lloyd was...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At six o'clock on the even- ing of the 10th of November, 1957, a message was received that the German trawler Hessen, of Bremen, had a sick man on board and that she had also asked for the services...

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The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a substantial contribution in his life-boat collecting-box from a German visitor.

The German explained that he had been a U-boat commander in the last...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th of December, 1955, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the life-boat coxswain had reported that a yacht was driving towards the sea wall east of the...

DEC. 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 5.30 P.M. a message was received that H.M. Minesweeper Susette had gone aground on North Beach and was making signals of distress A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing and she had missed the...

Boys of Longlands County Secondary School made this model life-boat station which was displayed at the Stourbridge R.N.L.I, branch annual meeting.

Boys showing Mrs. A. Wooldridge, M.B.E., the honorary secretary of the... - View image in PDF

EX-COXSWAIN JOHN WAITERS Ex-coxswain John Watters died on 2nd September, 1965, aged 66. He had been coxswain of Fowey life-boat for more than 25 years and was awarded the RNLFs bronze medal for gallantry in 1947 f°r a difficult and...