LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lark
Marginal conditions ^J for D class rescue On Easter Sunday morning last year Mablethorpe's D class inshore lifeboat saved two fishermen in conditions which were on the absolute limits for the class. The successful service earned her...
Appledore
APPLEDORE, DEVON On the 18th October, 1944, the Appledore life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the concrete harbour unit Phoenix 194.
COXSWAIN SYDNEY CANN was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Ramsey
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN On the 20th November, 1941, the Ramsey life-boat rescued the crew of thirteen of the steam trawler Strathairlie, of Aberdeen.
COXSWAIN JOHN COMISH was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Newbiggin
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND On the 4th February, 1940, the Newbiggin life-boat rescued the crew of eleven of the motor vessel Eminent, of Antwerp.
SECOND COXSWAIN GEORGE R. TAYLOR, acting as coxswain, was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
With courage, nothing is impossible
Thank you for your excellent response to our request for your help in selecting the words to include on the RNLI memorial sculpture. Many of you favoured one of the five published quotations, though we also received a good selection of new...
Category: Articles
Four Double Rescues
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
Category: Services
Devon Brook
AUGUST 28TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.14 in the afternoon the Blyth coastguard reported that the Devon Brook was ashore on the rocks a short distance from the east pier in a very bad position. She was bound from...
Aldebaran
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns from the Gull and Goodwin Lightships were heard at 10.30 A.M. on the 3rd May, and a schooner was seen to run ashore on the North Sand Head. The wind at the time was blowing from the N. The Life-boat Bradford and harbour...
Anna Precht
On the 18th September Caister supplied another stir- ring story of the sea, and while there is unfortunately some loss of life to record, the Life-boatmen, the men who " never turn back," have performed a fine rescue of...
Ida
At daybreak on the 27th of February, a vessel of Dundalk, which proved to be the brigantiue Ida, was observed ashore near Black Rock — near the entrance of the harbour of Dun- dalk. A gale was blowing from the E., and a considerable sea was...