LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Estafette
At daybreak on the 6th of November, the Life-boat was launched to the assistance of a ship on the West Gunfleet Sands, which was found to be the brigantine ISsta/ette, of Faversham, bound from the Tyne to Whitstable with coal. She was...
Award to Two Coxswains
THE 1963 award made under the terms of the James Michael Bower Endow- ment Fund established by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has been made to Coxswain Hubert Ernest Petit, of St. Peter Port, gold medallist, and...
Category: Awards
Sovereign, Tagus and a Norwegian Schooner
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals of distress were shown by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel at about 12.45 A.M. on the 17th February, during a moderate gale from the S.E., with a heavy sea on the bar. The Life-boat Mark Lane was manned, towed out of...
Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, in the wheelhouse of the 33ft Brede class lifeboat to be named R.VJ.B Merchant Navy, during his visit to the RNLI stand at the Birmingham Boat and Caravan Show in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Louisa
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—At about 4 A.M.
on the 5th January a rocket was fired from the Wold lightship. The crew of the Husband Life-boat immediately mustered and the boat was1 launched. She went to the lightship, which reported...
First Vellum Award for IRB Rescue
For the first time ever the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded for a service by an inshore rescue boat. The service was carried out by the Eastney IRB on 3ist October, 1965, when six men were saved from a...
Category: Awards
London Life-Boat Day
ON April 21st, in preparation for Life-boat Day meeting of in Greater London, Honorary Secretariesand other Organizers was held at the house of Lady Burnham, who not only entertained them to tea,but presided over the meeting, which numbered...
Category: Articles
Fishing Vessels and Express
FISHING VESSEL STRIKES PIER IN NEAR GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 1st November, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that several fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 3.0...
General Index
ANNUAL REPORT , Box Collections . , Branch Contributions , General Collections .
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Category: Index
A Dinghy
Drifting dinghy ON THE EVENING of Monday June 29, 1981, John McAllister was working at Garron Point, east of Red Bay lifeboat station, when he saw people waving in a small dinghy off the point. He telephoned the station's deputy...