LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scotland's Achievement
OXE of the notable Life-boat events of 1930 was the great increase in the amount contributed to the Institution by Scotland. In a year in which of the eight districts into which Great Britain and Ireland are divided for the purpose of the...
Category: Donations
Bronze Medal for a Shore-Boat Service
THE Bronze Medal has been awarded to Thomas Boyle, of Seafield, Quilty, Co.
Clare, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to two other men for their gallantry in rescuing three men who had lost their boat and were marooned on...
Category: Services
F. Edwards
On the 14th November, at 4.30 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat was launched, in reply to signals of distress, shown in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. She sailed towards the sand, and met a boat containing 5 men, the crew of the schooner F....
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At 9.30 a.m. on 30th January, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a boy was ill on Inishmaan Island and would have to be taken to hospital. As no other boat was available the honorary secretary agreed that the...
Life-Boat Flag Days In 1946
IN 1946 flag days were held by 808 of the Institution's branches, and 7,919,000 people contributed. This was over two million more than before the war, but three million fewer than in the record year of 1944. The sum contributed in these...
Category: Donations
A Boat (1)
SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was...
Life-Boatmen In the Victory March
Twenty-four life-boatmen, from Walton-on-tlae-Naze, Clacton, Margate, Ramsgate, Walmer and Hastings, marched with the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy in the Victory March on June 8th. The life-boats of these six stations rescued 839 lives...
Category: Articles
Emergo III
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 4.45 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Emergo III, which had been carrying out survey work, had lost both anchors off Sizewell and had...
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Stripped search Wmer lifeboats took part in a search for a drunken skinny dipper in the summer when a pile of clothing was found on the beach. Meanwhile, the nude swimmer was safely tucked up in bed. A fter taking a dip he had been unable...
A Rubber Dinghy
JANUARY 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
Just before five in the afternoon the naval authorities at Newhaven telephoned through the coastguard asking for the lifeboat to go out and investigate a rubber dinghy one mile south-east...