LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Falmouth, Cornwall. — 27th July, 1939. Two steamers had been in collision in the morning, one an oil tanker which had caught fire. Ten of her crew lost their lives. The other twenty-four had been rescued by another steamer. At 8 P.M. it was...

THE Institution has received a gift of £3 13s. Qd. from an acting doctor on board the S.S. Vandyk, of Liverpool.

While she was outward bound on a pleasure cruise the medical officer was compelled to leave the ship at...

On the 7th of December, 1959. the Cromarty and Torbay life-boats carried out services for which medals for gallantry were awarded. Full accounts of these services begin on page 389.

On the same day the Longhope life- boat...

Commemorative plate, being held by Alice Wright, chief clerk. North West District office, is one of an edition limited to 250 being sold on behalf of the Lord Mayor of Manchester's lifeboat appeal to fund a Rother lifeboat to be named... - View image in PDF

Mr. John Taylor, aged 16, of Cullercoats, North Shields, whose father, Mr. R. J. Taylor, is a leading member of the Cullercoats ILB and was an officer for 12 years in the conventional life-boat previously stationed there, has been accepted...

Life-boat O.N. 729 - While on passage from Baltimore to Crosshaven on the loth August, 1967, the life-boat John R. Webb came up with a small rowing boat with four people on board.

They had lost an oar and were drifting...

Two of the collectors from the B irmingham branch attracted the attention of shoppers in the City Centre by wearing RNLI equipment and collecting next to an Atlantic 21 lifeboat.

The two collectors were part of a large team... - View image in PDF

OCTOBER 1994 Howard Biggs, honorary secretary and treasurer of Broadstairs branch since 1952 and also box secretary from 1949. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1963, a Gold badge in 1974 and a bar to the Gold badge in 1985.