LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...

The staffs of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway have collected among themselves £938 15*. for the Life-boat Service. This has been done in response to a special appeal made to them by Sir Edwin Stockton, M.P., a director of the...

For their services to the Norwegian vessel Kings Star, which went aground on the North Shoal - a dangerous rock eight miles off the Orkneys - on 28th May, 1966 (THE LIFE-BOAT, September, 1966), Coxswain A. K. Sinclair, of the Stromness...

• She is ex-lifeboat R.A. Colby Cubbin No.1 (ON 929), a 46ft motor Watson lifeboat. She was stationed at Douglas, Isle of Man, between 1956 and 1988 and during her RNLI service launched 115 times saving 95 lives. She was refitted in 1975... - View image in PDF

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At about 6 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, the coastguard reported a small longshore boat at anchor, a mile and a half S.E. of the Palling coastguard's look-out. - She was not making...

A Plate Fixed As A Temporary Repair To The Gorleston Life-Boat After She Had Been Holed On Service 24Th November 1965. - View image in PDF

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A LORRY decorated by the chairman and secretary of the Luton branch, Lieut-Commander Bernard McDonald, R.N.V.R., and Commander W. R. S.

Smith, R.N.V.R., with equipment supplied by the Institution's depot won the first...