LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Vessels
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — On the morning of the 15th March, 1939, several fishing vessels were returning to harbour. A heavy sea was running in the bay, and the motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched at 9.45 A.M. in readiness...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN.—Seventeen of the fishingcobles which had gone to sea early in the morning of the 14th February were overtaken by a gale from S. to S.W. and a strong sea and, as their return home was attended by considerable risk, the Lifeboat...
Veteran Worker
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, sent a telegram of congratulations to Mr. J. C. Clarke, of Gwenfro, Greystone Park, Penmaenmawr, Caerns., when he celebrated his...
Category: Committee
Ex-Coxswain Patrick Sliney
Ex-Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of the Ballycotton, Co. Cork, life-boat, who won the R.N.L.I, gold medal for gallantry for one of the most famous services in life-boat history, died at the age of 87. Mr. Sliney was alsoawarded the silver and...
Category: Obituaries
Mr Norman Wales
The Committee of Management suffered another severe loss with the death on 21st July of Mr. Norman Wales, J.P., who joined the Committee in 1961 and served on a number of sub-committees. He was chairman of Wates Ltd.
(civil...
Category: Obituaries
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