LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
Category: Articles
First Launch of the St. Ives Motor Life Boat
First Launch of the St. Ives Motor Life Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Loss of a Bell
A BELL which was bought sixty-three years ago by the fish salesmen of Brixham fish market was used for many years as a speedy method of summoning the crew of the Torbay life-boat even before the maroons were fired. The bell was at one time...
Category: Articles
St. Ives Life-Boat Off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
St Ives Life-Boat Off Yarmouth Isle of Wight. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives (1)
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
Courage and loss
When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
Category: Articles
Loss of friends
Here at the RNLI we’re sorry to report the death of Trevor Grills, singer with the shanty group Fisherman’s Friends. He died on 11 February, after being injured in an accident at a concert venue that also killed the manager of the group,...
Category: Articles
Awards to St. Ives for the Service to the Alba
By a strange coincide the Hungarian Minister in London was notified by his government on the day of the disaster at St. Ives of the awards which it had made to St. Ives for the service to the Alba in January, 1938. Though the Alba was...
Category: Awards