LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ring Dove
At about 1 A.M. on the 1st February, the Coast- guard called the Coxswain of the Life- boat Co-operator No. 2 and reported that a vessel was making signals of distress near the Bull Point. The Life-boat was at once launched, and proceeded...
Medal for Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...
Category: Medals
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Swim between the flag You'll hear again and again from RNLI Beach Lifeguards: 'Always swim where there is a lifeguard on patrol and stay inside the area marked by the red and yellow flags.' On a sunny day at Perranporth, Cornwall...
V. Webster
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Category: Advertisement
Arizona
— At about 6.45 P.M. on the 22nd February the Coastguard reported that a vessel was burning flares near the Pakefield Gat- way. The Coxswain of the No. 1 Life- boat Kentwell at once assembled his crew and the boat proceeded in a whole W.S.W....
A Sailing Boat
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and Anstruther,, Fifeshire.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 26th of September, 1948, the Musselburgh police telephoned to the Dunbar life-boat station that a sailing boat with five boys on board had been driven out to...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 6.12 p.m. on 18th September, 1966, the police informed the coxswain that a skin diver was in difficulties under the cliff between the life-boat station and the coastguard lookout. The coxswain rang the coastguard...
Welcome
Whether people walk by the sea, have fun on it, or save lives in it, we want them to stay safe. Lifeguards like those pictured on our front page face tough training to prepare them: high standards of fitness, safety knowledge...
Category: Articles
Olivia
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.47 on the night of the 5th of March, 1957. a message was received that the schooner Olivia, of Plymouth, needed help four miles off Eddystone. At 10.5 the life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rozi'se put out in a...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...
Category: Awards