LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lives Rescued by Shore-boats and Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Shore-boats rescued 1,168 lives, for whose rescue the Institution rewarded the rescuers.
Auxiliary rescue-boats, established by the Institution, rescued 42 lives..
Category: Services
A Beaufighter Aeroplane (1)
AUGUST 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A Beaufighter aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat found only small pieces of wreckage. - Paid permanent crew. - Rewards, 13s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (120)
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE ISLE OF WIGHT. The life-boat, crew had assembled for an exercise, but this was cancelled when the air raid siren sounded. Before the men left the station they saw a British aeroplane come down in the sea two miles...
Gwenili
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.8 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1950, the Foreland Coastguard reported a small yacht in need of help half a mile south of St. Catherine's Point. At 6.25 the life-boat Langham, on tem- porary duty at...
News and Views
Top coxswains Bill Cargill, coxswain of Montrose lifeboat and Harold Jones, retired coxswain of Beaumaris lifeboat have been honoured by their local communities for their hard work on behalf of the lifeboat service - Bill has been named 1996...
Category: Articles
Jeune Prosper and Plymouth, and French Lugger St. Clement
PADSTOW.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 20th February, the schooner Jeune Prosper, bound from Swansea to Bordeaux, was seen running before a strong N.W. gale for Padstow Harbour. The Lifeboat Albert Edward was launched as speedily...
Launching Life-Boats Off Slipways
Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...
Category: Articles
Australia
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY.—A telegram having been received from Tenby on the morning of the 30th March intimating that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Life-boat City of Manchester was launched at 8.35 and proceeded to the...
An Aeroplane (5)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
Vellums for Sunderland and Whitehaven
A VELLUM to mark the 150th anniver- sary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Sunderland was presented on the 6th of October, 1954, by Mr.
Arthur G. Everett, a member of the Committee of Management. The vellum was...
Category: Awards