LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli National Lottery
PAULA FUDGE, Commonwealth gold medalist and holder of the women's 5,000 metres world record, visited Poole headquarters on Friday October 30 to draw the RNLI fifteenth national lottery. Paula gained her record in Norway in 1981, and was...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN STOREY, after serving 44 years as a member of the Crew of the Newbiggin Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate.
To GEORGE McLEOD, on his retirement, after serving 5 years as Coxswain of the Lossiemouth...
Category: Awards
A Dinghy
Dinghy adrift off Inchcolm AT 1644 on the afternoon of December 8, 1974, Queensferry honorary treasurer, who was deputising for the honorary secretary, was informed by the Coastguard that a man was in difficulty in a small dinghy off...
Scotish Isles
At 6 P.M. on the 17th of May a full-rigged ship was observed on the Goodwin Sands, and just then a signal of distress was hoisted. The crew of the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton were summoned and the boat was launched. On getting alongside...
Devon
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 20th February, while a strong breeze was blowing from the E., accompanied by a rough sea, the pilots observed a schooner strike on the Causeway rocks.
The crew of the Life-boat...
The S.S. Paris
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—A message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the 18th February, stating that a vessel was ashore. A moderate S.W.
breeze was then blowing; the sea was smooth, and the weather thick and...
Brilliant
A flag was observed on a schooner at anchor about two miles off the harbour during a moderate breeze from the W.S, W.
on the 13th February. The trawl boat Nerbudda was seen to speak her and the flag was hauled down. On the...
Culzean Castle and Aratus
At about 10.45 A.M. on the 3rd August two vessels came into collision in the Cockle Gat during a strong S.W. breeze and a moderate sea. They both hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the Life-boat Qodsend was launched and sailed...
Boadicea
At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea,...
A Small Boat
Soon after midday on the 5th August information reached the Coxs-wain of the Life-boat Richard Cresswell that a man was adrift I in the river in a small boat with only I one oar. There was a strong offshore breeze at the time, and the boat...