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New Brighton Mechanic's Gallantry

Date: September 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 25

Last June the district engineer, district surveyor and the motor mechanic were in the boarding boat at New Brighton when she was hanging in the davits on the landing-stage. One of the davit-chains gave way, the stern dropped, and all three...

Category: Articles

Pioneer

Date: July 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 432

Life-boat O.N.803 at Sheerness - At 3.40 p.m. on 22nd February, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized near Minster wartime defence boom.

The life-boati Canadian Pacific slipped her moor...

Pulper

Date: February 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 259

At 1.15 P.M. on the 25th May the Chief Officer of Coastguard reported that a vessel was showing distress signals off Clogher Head. The crew of the Lifeboat Charles Whitton were assembled and the boat was promptly launched. She pro- ceeded...

Two Rowing Boats

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

APRIL 13TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 2.51 in the afternoon a message was received from the Torquay coastguard that a small rowing boat was waterlogged 100 yards S.W. of Orestone and that men were swimming in the water. The boat belonged to the...

Saved By Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

The mechanic of the Hastings life-boat, Mr. J. H. Martin, and Police Sergeant S. Ferguson of Hastings have both received framed letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for...

Category: Articles

Royalty at Exmouth

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

The Duchess of Kent took over the wheel of Exmouth life-boat, City of Birmingham, during a brief visit to the town's life-boat station on 14th May. Coxswain Brian Rowsell, who stood beside her in the wheel-house, said she showed a...

Category: Articles

The Spanish Motor Life-Boat, "Sir William Hillary."

Date: August 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 291

The Spanish Motor Life-Boat "Sir William Hillary". - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Naming Ceremony, Cromer No. 2 Life-Boat

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

The Naming Ceremony Cromer No 2 Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

(Below) a Royal Contribution to the Lifeboat Service

Date: Summer 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 449

(Below) A royal contribution to the lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Lifeboatman Wearing the Current Closed Cell Foam Design

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

A Lifeboatman Wearing The Current Closed Cell Foam Design. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs