LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Heroes of the Sea" Film
THIS film, which was presented to the Institution in 1931, by British Inter- national Pictures, and was first shown in February of that year, has during the following four years been shown in 415 cinemas, and has collected for the...
Category: Articles
Long Service Awards
THE LONG SERVICE BADGE for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Clacton-on-Sea Crew Member D. Stammers Hoylake Coxswain J. G. McDermott Second Coxswain D. A. Dodd Assistant...
Category: Awards
Lives on the line
As storms lashed our coasts last Christmas, a crew of sailors found themselves without engine or sail power – and drifting into the path of a 218m cruise liner …
When the Cowes lifeboat...
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A Dinghy (3)
SAILING DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH Girvan, Ayrshire. At 6.30 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, a member of the Girvan yacht club informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy with two young men on board was overdue from a...
H.L.S. 161.
Weymouth, Dorset,—On the 2nd of April, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland rescued four lives from the tug H.L.S. 161. Rewards, the silver medal to the coxswain, the bronze medal to the motor mechanic, and £19 12*. to coxswain...
The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston (1)
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...
Flores
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON.
ESSEX. At about 7.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that information had been received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel that a vessel to the W.N.W. was sounding S.O.S. on her siren. A...
Chili
During foggy weather on 15th February the barque Chili, of Dunkirk, a large vessel of 1,800 tons, carrying a crew of twenty men, became embayed about one mile to the west of the Lizard and was within 150 fathoms of the shore. A messenger...
Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.45 on the morning of the 18th of September, 1952, a fishing-boat skipper reported that the life-boat would be needed to escort the herring fleet into harbour.
A strong northerly wind was blowing with...