LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday Honours
Three serving coxswains and a retired coxswain of the R.N.L.I. were honoured with the B.E.M. in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. They were Coxswain Edward C. Larbalestier, of St. Helier, Channel Islands, Coxswain Robert Lee, Douglas,...
Category: Awards
A Fishing Vessel
Faster... and further The abilities of the new generation of fast lifeboats were highlighted on the very day that this page of The Lifeboat went to press - with Eyemouth's Trent Barclaycard Crusader going to the aid of a stricken fishing...
In This Issue
In this issue News All the latest from and about the lifeboat service Letters 2 8 Feature Come fly with me 10 The Lifeboat takes a closer look at the RNLI hovercraft - the latest addition to the fleet Lifeboats in action Including award...
Category: Contents
Juliet, of Greenock
On the 29th December, intelligence was received here that a vessel was anchored at the entrance of the harbour, near Hell Bay, with an en- sign flying half-mast high. The wind was W.S.W., blowing a very strong gale. The Padstow life-boat was...
Marie May
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale
ON the 27th of October, 1959, the day on which the Moelfre life-boat carried out the service which earned her cox- swain the gold medal, the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, life-boat also per- formed an outstanding service in ex- ceptionally...
Category: Services
Nation-Wide Effort Reduces Life-Boat Deficit
THE Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., told the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, that, following the serious deficit...
Category: Meetings
Dunkit.
Lee shore FOLLOWING THE SIGHTING of a red flare in Dovercourt Bay by the BR sea freight liner. Thames Coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary of Walton and Frinton lifeboat station and the deputy launching authority of Harwich lifeboat...
Aeolian
Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the...
Melody
Skilful boat handling and teamwork played a major role in this rescue but, for New Brighton Helmsman Mark Bland, decision making was the difficult part. Here's Mark's personal account While working at my office at Safe Water Training...