LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The fine traditions of Newhaven lifeboat crews were remembered when the station's new Severn class lifeboat was named after the RNLI Chairman and his wife during a moving ceremony on 6 May.. - View image in PDF

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ARBROATH by east of Arbroath, and the motor life- FEBRUARY 9TH. -ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 10.35 in the morning boat John and William Mudie was distress signals were heard south-east launched at once. It was very hazy. A...

APRIL 7TH. - ABERDEEN. At about 10.20 A.M. the auxiliary motor schooner Else, of the Faroes, was seen from Aberdeen harbour round house to be in difficulties off the south breakwater. A strong N. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and sleet...

JULY 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about a mile north of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 3 A.M.. A moderate...

In the New Year's Honours Mr. H. M. Smardon, who has been honorary of the Order of the British Empire for his many public services in Brixham..

THE LORD SOUTHBOROUGH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I, P.C., who died in January, 1947, at the age of eighty-six, after an astonishingly full life of public service, had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1926, and was appointed a...

On a day when the highest wave ever recorded off the western shores of Ireland tipped 20.4m, Fenit lifeboat crew were called into action

On 13 December 2011, with a violent storm force 11...

THE following announcement appeared in the Morning Post on 9th May :— " Mr. Frederick Thomas Callcott, the sculptor, died recently in a nursing home at Hastings. Born at Newcastle Street, Strand, in 1854, he was educated at St. Clement...