LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diploma de Voto de Gracias
The Spanish Life-boat Society has presented a certificate—their Diploma de Voto de Gracias—to the coxswains and crews of the Sennen Cove and Penlee life-boats as a token of deep appreciation for their efforts to locate the crew of the...
Category: Awards
News from the Branches
THK ton highest remittances received from Branches during the year 1st October, 1919, to 30th September, 1920, are JIB follows:— ±. (/ City of London Liverpool Bradford .
Manchester .
Glasgow...
Category: Branches
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LVIII. SUNDERLAND.—The Good Templar, 30 feet by 8 feet, 8 oars.
LIX. Ditto.—The Mary, 30i feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LX. Ditto.—The Florence Nightingale, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10...
Category: Articles
Lerwick: After Standing By the Listing Fred Everard All Night on Her Slow Progress Towards Lerwick Through Gale Force Winds As the List Increased the 52' Barnett Relief L
Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
September
Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1955
Persons Time of rescuedfrom 1955. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 3. 4.35 p.m. Fishing boats, of Pittenween. Anstruther life-boat escorted boats.
,, 3. 8.10 p.m. M.F.V. No. 51, of...
Category: Services
Colorado
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 20th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported a small vessel off Seaford Head flying distress signals, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a south- westerly breeze...
A Mustang Aeroplane
JULY 29TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 11.23 in the morning the Fairlight coastguard reported that a Mustang aeroplane had come down in the sea two and a half miles from Hastings. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor...
The Life-Boat
'Tw night! npou the Cornish coast lull load the breakers roar, And helplessly yon gallant barque Drifts on the dark lee shore ; And quickly now the signal gnns Boom high above the gale.
O many a dark-ey'd Cornish...
Category: Songs
Katina T.H.
HELP FOR CARPENTER Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 a.m. on 2Oth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a carpenter in a Greek motor vessel had severely injured his leg and needed medical treatment. The crew...