LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Sailing Boat
On the 27th July a small sailing boat, with two men and a boy on board, got into difficulties about three-quarters of a mile off the Muglins, at the entrance to the bay. The boat had put out from Bray for Kingstown, but had been blown out...
The Queen's Forts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1948, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that a man, a diver of the Admiralty, working on the dis- mantling of the Queen's Forts, one and a...
A Fishing Boat
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 9.40 on the night of the 7th of July, 1955, a message was received from the pilots at Passage that a boat had broken down off Brownstown Head. At 9.55 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out, with the...
La Paloma
EXPLOSION ABOARD GERMAN MOTOR VESSEL Hastings, Sussex. At 2.58 on the morning of the 6th September, 1962, the Fairlight coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen six miles east-south-east of Fairlight look-out...
A New Medal for Gallantry
SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals, struck in 1825, had the head of George IV. Although, on his accession to the throne in...
Category: Medals
What a Lot of Bottle!
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kronsberg
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 6.10 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was burn- ing green flares two miles west-north- west of Lizard Head. The coastguard signalled the ship by morse, and in reply she asked...
G. W. Pearns
Signals were fired from the Customs Watch House at 11.30 A.M. on the 28th March, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required. The crew of the Life-boat John Turner Turner at once assembled, the boat was launched, and in about...
Liberator
WEXFORD.—On November 1st, during a strong gale from E.N.E., signals were observed from a vessel which, had strandedon the Dogger Bank. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was immediately launched, and proceeded to render assistance. On...
A Dinghy
HELICOPTER PICKS THREE MEN OUT OF SEA Margate, Kent. At 2.14 on the afternoon of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half north-west of Kingsgate coastguard look-out...