LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
The Deputy Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., and the Secretary, Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., attended the British Legion 50th anniversary conference at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the end of May when for the...
Category: Donations
Lightvessel Service
A LETTER of commendation signed by the Secretary of the Institution, Mr.
Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., was sent to Coxswain A. E. V. Cadman, D.S.M., and the crew of the Dover life-boat on the part they played in rescuing seven...
Category: Services
La Mariole
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At 9.45 in the morning of the 30th of October, 1948, a fishing vessel off the pier was seen to burn a flare, and at 10.15 the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched. She found the local motor...
Two Rescues By Shore-Boats
San day, Orkney Islands, and Smerwick, Co. Kerry.
ABOUT ten at night on 24th June, 1924, a small boat, with three men on board, was capsized in a sudden and heavy squall in Otterswick Bay, at Sanday, in the Orkney Islands....
Category: Services
Melba
Nov. 9TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 7 A.M. a message was received that a vessel was making distress signals to the E.S.E. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a short, sharp swell. The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart...
Marietta
On the 20th Feb. this Life-boat again performed most distinguished services in saving life. About 1 A.M. the usual signal of distress summoned the steam-tug GuidingStar, with the Life-boat in. tow, to the bar of the river. A gale of unusual...
New Ways of Raising Money
MRS. BOUTWOOD, honorary secretary of the Stanmore branch, has been holding gramophone evenings for young people, contributions for the entertainment being given to the Life- boat Service.
An unusual dance for those in their...
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Your Letters
Long lost Barometer I have a small item in my possession which may be of interest to someone, somewhere.
Towards the end of the 1950s, I was on holiday in Folkestone, Kent and picked up, half buried in the shingle, what...
Category: Correspondence
Letters
Silver Jubilee We were delighted to read about the present Wells' lifeboat in the winter issue of the journal and also to hear about the naming by Princess Margaret last November of Margate's new Rother lifeboat, Silver Jubilee...
Category: Correspondence
Today's Lifeboatmen
Today's lifeboatmen Coxswain Michael Grant of Selsey joined the crew in 1960 and served as second coxswain from 1972 to 1978, becoming the station's full-time coxswain on 1 November 1978.
He was awarded the Thanks...
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