LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Matthews, of Moelfre, Anglesey.
He has been coxswain since 1918, and previously served for three years as bowman. During the nineteen years that he has been an officer of the...
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— On the evening of the 26th January, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was on fire about seven miles east of the Mull of Galloway. A moderate north gale was blowing, with a moderate to rough sea, and the weather was very...
With the Widow of Coxswain Patton, of Runswick
At the annual meeting in 1934 after presenting to Mrs. Fatten the gold medal posthumously awarded to her husband for his gallantry in sacrificing his own life to save a lame man from the sinking steamer Disperser of West Hartlepool, on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Aith, Shetland*.—On the 20th April the motor life-boat went to Papa Stour to bring to hospital a small boy with afractured thigh. (Full account on page 122.) Expenses were paid by the Department of Health for Scotland..
A Steamer (1)
Kirkcudbright.—22nd January, 1939.
A steamer had been reported blowing her horn apparently for help, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Rewards, £23 11s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (11)
Hastings, Sussex.—25th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the channel between Hastings and Le Treport. No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the distress call...
Scene 4
The rescue. The two men of the smack can be seen in the rigging. - View image in PDF
Photographs reproduced ty courtesy of H. Jenkins, Lowestoft, (For a full account of the service see page 491.). - View image in PDF
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A Yacht (2)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—3 r d August, 1938. After lights had been seen and calls for help heard from a yacht a search was made, but nothing was found, and it is assumed that the yacht had got away on the rising tide.— Rewards, £4 8s....
A Happy Collector
A LADY living in a Suffolk village started to have a collecting boat for the Life-boat Service in May 1945. In Mav of this year she sent back the boat for "the sixth time, with £22 Ss. 7d. in it. Altogether in the three years she...
Category: Donations
Come Away
YACHT MISSING FOR THREE DAYS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 12.5 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to discuss the possibility of searching for the yacht...