LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Swanage, Dorset. At 8.55 on the evening of the 15th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of boys were stranded on the cliff face at Ballard Head. A shore rescue party was trying to reach them, and the...
Captain J B Leworthy
Captain J. B. Leworthy who joined the Committee of Management in 1974and was elected a vice-president in 1983. He was a member of the executive, establishment, finance and investment committees and had recently taken over as chairman of the...
Category: Obituaries
(Left) Jon Jones.
while (left) Jon Jones. The Lifeboats Editorial Assistant dispenses ballooons between stints on the Information and Storm Force desks. Jon took a lot of the pictures on this page too, but he doesn't get a 'credit' as he works for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
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Princess Manna, Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, has presented a signed photograph of herself to Mrs. B. A. Holding, of Learning- ton, who became honorary...
Category: Awards
Primula
Signals of dis- tress were seen shortly after 7 P.M. on the 19th October from the Barber Sands, and in response the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched. When near the sands the brigantine Primula of Istorp, was seen with heavy seas break...
Warwick Deeping
Wick, Caithness-shire,—At 2.12 on the morning of the 5fch of February, 1957, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the trawler Warwick Deeping, of Hull, was some fifty miles south of Dennis Head with her port side damaged. At 2.54 the...
Golden Grain
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3 p.m. on 5th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Amy Johnson was about to land the body of a man who had been dragged overboard by nets, with another fisherman,...
A Car
Two lifeboats in search for car in tragic cliff-fall The RNLI's chairman, Michael Vemon, has written to the coxswain of Eastbourne's All-weather lifeboat commending him on his actions during a service on 23 June 1990. The helmsman of...
A Boat
Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.57 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a man had made fast in a small boat to a float of the Admiralty boom half a mile north of the life-boat...
Avec Dieu
St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties half a mile south of Icho tower. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon put out at...