LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Mersey Class Lifeboat Exhibited at This Year's London Boat Show Frank and Lena Clifford
The Mersey class lifeboat exhibited at this year's London Boat Show, Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbridge, is an example of a lifeboat substantially funded by one legacy - which provides the opportunity for the lifeboat's name to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Stassa, of Panama (1)
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, and Life-boat 70-002 - At 5.20 a.m. on 15th July, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore at Renish point off Rodel. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate variable wind and a...
In the Nick of Time
The Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Coxswain J. Mercer, of Walmer, for taking the life-boat across the Goodwin Sands by night in a rough sea and -rescuing the crew of 13 of a naval launch. At times there was only a...
Category: Articles
Ocean Prince
On the morning of the 5th October the steam trawler Ocean Prince, of Aber- deen, outward bound from Aberdeen, was making for Stromness Harbour with damaged boiler, when she ran aground on the Point of Ness, near Stromness. The vessel and...
Welly good rescue
NEW QUAY | 10 JULY
A 9-year-old schoolgirl who got trapped under giant rocks at Aberaeron Beach, was freed by New Quay lifeboat crew. The girl, in welly boots, became stuck during a game of...
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Enfield and District Branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters
A profit of £500 was the result of a Cockney night held by Enfield and District branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters.
The picture shows Lord Graham of Edmonton (r) and the High Chief Ranger of the Foresters Mr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lowestoft Coxswain's Gallantry.
Coxswain Albert Spurgeon, of Lowestoft, who already holds the silver and bronze medals, has been awarded the bronze medal for the second time.
He took the life-boat out at night to a naval vessel, was flung against the...
Category: Articles
Angloman (1)
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of Decem- ber, 1960, a message was received from the honorary medical adviser that he had to go by air to the mainland to take an expectant mother to Redruth hospital as...
Inaugural Ceremonies: Wales
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, took place on 17th July, with Commo- dore Sir Richard Henry Williams- Bulkeley, Bt., K.C.B., R.N.R., Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey and a Vice- President of the Institution...
Category: Inaugurations