LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
French Medals for Cromer
IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...
Category: Medals
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and present- ed with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the .Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
Category: Awards
Brooks & Bentley
In a dramatic tribute to the power and force of nature's toughest and most volatile elements, the master jewellers of Brooks & Bentley are proud to announce a distinctive timepiece that embraces both cutting edge style together with...
Category: Advertisement
Truthseeker
On the 14th-15th February, shortly after mid- night, the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore near the Sutton Coastguard station, on the north side of Dublin Bay, and with all haste the No. 2 Life-boat Dunleary was sent to her...
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Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 8.40 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, the staff-coxswain of the 70-foot life-boat was told that there was a sick man on the South Lundy lighthouse and asked if he could take a doctor to Lundy island. It was...
Mr. H. B. Fleet
The death occurred early in June of Mr. H. B.
Fleet who was the well known honorary secretary of the Margate, Kent, life-boat station. During his long public service—he spent many years in the Police—Mr. Fleet devoted...
Category: Obituaries
Fine Gael
JULY 10TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At midnight on the 9th July one of the life-boatmen reported to the coxswain that the small boat Fine Gael had notreturned. She had been taken out at about seven in the evening by three...
Rosebud
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing boat Bosebud, of Lowestoft, was being sailed from that place to Lerwick, on the 7th April, by two Shetland fishermen who had just purchased her, she was brought up by stress of weather and had to...
COMMUNITY NEWS
A roaring success
The Bikers Cove, neighbours and friends of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a custom bike show at the end of July – and it was certainly a 'triumph'. Over 400 bikers from all over...
Category: Articles
Covesea and Ocean Swell (1)
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...