LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tikokino
At 2.28 p.m. on 12th July, 1968, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a dismasted yacht was drifting eastwards off Ramsgate harbour. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped...
Fishing Boats
Anstruther, Fife - At 12.30 p.m. on 27th February, 1967, it was seen that the local fishing fleet was standing off the harbour awaiting the tide to flood sufficiently in order to enter. There was a gale force southerly wind with a very heavy...
A Car
Inshore lifeboat crew members dive to sunken car The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to New Brighton lifeboat crew members Mike Jones and Tony Clare for the bravery and determination they showed when trying to rescue the...
A Steamer Blows Up.
Coxswain James Campbell, of Boulmer, has won the bronze medal for gallantry. His life-boat was helping in the tow of a burning steamer when the whole fore-part of the steamer blew up. The life-boat was lifted out of the water; her crew were...
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Birthday honours
Four RNLI volunteers have been named in The Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Rhyl lifeboat Crew Member Paul Frost (pictured), Bembridge Lifeboat Operations Manager Captain Graham Hall, Bangor lifeboat Crew Member Brian...
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Royal gratitude
This is the moment that the RNLI’s Patron, HM The Queen, thanked Newhaven lifeboat crew for their courage during the October storms. Her Royal Highness met Newhaven lifeboat Coxswain Paul Legendre during a visit to Newhaven after the crew...
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November (1)
danger they put out. They did not reach and rescue the boys until they were two miles out and their boat half full of water. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 2.30 in the afternoon of...
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Rosa
JANUARY 24TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At about 1.30 P.M. the sea began to make with the ebb tide, and soon it was breaking across the bar. The weather was cold, and a fresh E.S.E. wind was blowing. As the motor fishing boat...
A Pinnace
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...
Our Centenary Year
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....
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