LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1958 has been won by Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St. Ives for the rescue of a party who were marooned in a cave on the 9th of August, 1958. A...
Category: Awards
Coxswain Edward Parker
Coxswain Edward Parker, who died on i5th October, 1964, was a former coxswain of Margate life-boat who was awarded the D.S.M. for the part he and his crew played at Dunkirk when the Margate life-boat rescued over 600 British servicemen from...
Category: Obituaries
A Dinghy (2)
At 9.25 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off the R7 buoy. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 9.40 in a moderate south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Ex-Coxswain John Watters
Ex-coxswain John Walters died on 2nd September, 1965, at the age of 66. A distinguished member of the life-boat service, he had served as coxswain of the Fowey life-boat for over twenty-five years. He was awarded the Institution's bronze...
Category: Obituaries
Ipswich Branch
This caravan has generously been lent permanently by the Ingham family of Nacton to Ipswich branch to help with souvenir sales. Here Mrs R.
Ingham (I) hands over the keys to Mrs P. Olsen, chairman of the branch, with Mr M.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jane Roberts
Write a letter to the Lincolnshire Echo and the chances are you are unwittingly helping the RNLI. Jane Roberts, who works there as a copy taker, cuts the stamps off the envelopes and adds them to her collection. In six months she has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Going for Broke
Walkers from Lloyds brokers Sneath Kent and Stuart took part in the 1991 Royal British Legion (Lloyds of London branch) city walk on 19 October to raise money for the Legion and the lifeboats.
To distinguish themselves from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Speed Boat (1)
AUG. 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 9.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse. The weather was fine and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Thomas...
Vliestroom, Kalso and Karanan
MARCH 3 1 ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 5.55 P.M. a steamer was seen to be ashore at Trefusis Point Falmouth Harbour, and at 6.10 P.M. the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched. A southerly gale was...
An Aeroplane (69)
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. At 10.3 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.W. of Cape Cornwall, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 10.45 P.M. The sea was calm, with a light...