LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. City of Kobe
DEC. 19TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.5 A . M .
news was received by wireless from the Cross Sand Light-vessel, through the coastguard, that an explosion had occurred, followed by red flares, about two...
C.H.S.
LlTTLEHAMPTON. At 1.50 A.M. OU the llth January, the Life-boat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was launched, signals of distress having been shown close to the West Pier, in a moderate S.W. gale and a heavy sea. It was found that the brigantine...
Tourist Tangle
The morning of 1 June was sunny and calm – the perfect day for a sightseeing trip around Coquet Island bird reserve.
Amble’s lifeboats, the Mersey class The Four Boys and D class Rosemary Palmer, were called out at 11am to...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station, the first lifeboatman to receive the gold, silver and bronze medals for gallantry at the same annual presentations of awards meeting. He was awarded the gold medal, and his crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
We're not asking you to risk your life in Force 9 gales. Or to be on call, day and night. Or even to devote time to training. We are asking for something equally important, though: put pen to paper, below, and take out a Lifeboats...
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Lifeboat Mary
Lifeboat Mary An RNLI volunteer wearing a lifeboat crew jumper nervously collects an award recognising a lifetime of unpaid service. The resulting applause is not for a young rescuer, or experienced coxswain, but 76-year-old fundraiser Mary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carrying On.
In November the Institution sent its usual letter to all Mayors asking for their help in holding life-boat days in 1941. Mayor after Mayor, from places which have been heavily bombed - the London boroughs, Coventry and Birmingham among them ...
Category: Articles
The Service In 1943.
In 1943 life-boats rescued 469 lives and helped to save 47 boats and vessels from destruction. Of their 411 launches, 249, or nearly two-thirds, were to ships and aeroplanes in distress on account of the war. Life-boatmen won 30 medals for...
Category: Articles
Fitz Clarence
During a dense fog on the 3rd March a boat came ashore at Walmerand reported thatalarge steamer was stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was at once assembled and the boat launched at...