LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WM. HENRY TRIPP, on his retirement, after serving 12J years as Bowman, 3J years as Second Coxswain, and nearly 14 years as Coxswain of the Porthoustock Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To MATTHEW...
Category: Awards
Letters
Bravery endures Thank you for the autumn issue of the magazine.
The article on Henry Shrimp Davies was of great interest to me: my brother was a crew member of the SS English Trader on that fateful night and at the age of...
Category: Correspondence
Lt Cdr PEC Pickles Mbe Jp Rnvr
NOVEMBER 1990 Lt Cdr P.E.C. Pickles MBE JP RNVR, elected to the Committee of Management in 1968 and appointed a Vice-President in 1975 and a Life Vice- President in 1986. Cdr Pickles served on various committees and was Deputy Chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
Barbie Ann
Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.14 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, a trawler was seen burning flares a quarter of a mile south of the Martello tower. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The tide was flooding. The...
Members of Campaign for Real Ale
Members Of Campaign For Real Ale. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Offshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1977
Aldeburgb, Suffolk May 6 and 29.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow May 25.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal March 25 and April 22.
Baltimore, Co. Cork April 23.
Barra Island, Inverness-shire...
Category: Services
First Slipway Launching and Recovery Trials for the Prototype 47Ft
First slipway launching and recovery trials for the prototype 47ft Tyne class fast slipway lifeboat City of London were successfully completed at Selsey lifeboat station in the spring. Selsey's own 48ft (tin Oaklev lifeboat Charles Henry... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lough Swilly Lifeboat Crew Inside An MTU
Lough Swilly Lifeboat Crew Inside An Mtu. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Royal Army Service Corps Motor Fishing Vessels
JUNE 4TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.45 in the evening the Needles Signal Station telephoned that pilots had reported two vessels ashore on the Shingles Bank. A moderate south-westerly gale was blowing and the sea was rough. At eight...
October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services