LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medal for Second Coxswain. Four Rescued from Yacht
THE second coxswain of the Appledore life-boat, John Richard Bowden, who took command of the Appledore lifeboat in the temporary absence of the regular coxswain, Sidney Cann, on nth September, 1964, has been awarded the bronze medal for...
Category: Services
Baden Powell
Several cobles belonging to Filey were overtaken by bad weather when at sea on the 1st May.
The wind suddenly increased to a strong northerly gale and the boats which were to the north of the " Brig " were able to...
Cantabria (1)
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—On the 2nd November, 1938, the Cromer life-boat rescued five from the Spanish steamer Cantabria, which was slowly sinking after being shelled by an armed auxiliary cruiser flying the flag of...
Dineiddwg
Aberdeen. At 11.50 p.m. on 2nd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Dineiddwg of Aberdeen had grounded at Girdleness in thick fog. The life-boat Ramsay-Dyce proceeded at 12.20 a.m. in a light...
A Bodyboard
Surfer Neil Futton was waiting in the water for the next wave to ride and, looking around, noticed a bodyboard floating in the water.
He paddled over and found a man who had stopped breathing. He started to attempt...
Jeune Colombe
On the 9th November the French brig Jeune Colombe, bound from St. Malo to Preston, went ashore on the Horse Bank, during a N.W. gale with a heavy ground swell. The Lytham Life-boat promptly went to the assistance of the master and crew; but...
Wow!
Twelve months after its opening by HM The Queen, The Lifeboat College has been awarded 'Medium-sized project of the year' at the 2005 Quality in Construction Awards. The RNLI development came top in a shortlist of four projects in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Merchant Ship
JUNE 7TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL.
A merchant ship had been reported mined and torpedoed and sinking rapidly, but other vessels had gone to her help and the life-boat found that she was not needed.
While...
Gertie
DECEMBER 8TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the military lookout post at Greenore Point that rockets and flares had been seen, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor lift-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
Thurne
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles south-east of the look-out hut, near the Princessa Buoy. Ten...