LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vellum awards
Brighton Helm Mark Smith has been accorded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for his part in saving a man’s life in near-gale conditions on 26 May 2011.
The man had gone overboard from the yacht...
Category: Articles
Shark Tempest
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.20 p.m.
on 12th April, 1968, a report was received that a small boat was firing flares 500 yards from Stackpool quay. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 4.28 in a moderate easterly...
Norman
Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.
The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...
Dane
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 1 A.M. on the 17th October, 1939, the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel was standing into danger near the Middle Binks. A light, variable wind was blowing. The sea was smooth.
At 1.15...
Coxswain Superintendent William Anderson
The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain William Dyke
The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
Category: Obituaries
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire - At 11.52 a.m.
on 28th April, 1967, it was learned that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel hadbeen injured in a fall and that medical assistance was required. With a doctor aboard, the life-boat City...
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (3)
On the 10th October, 1939, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Saltaire, of Grimsby. Later the men returned to their ship, with the owner’s agent, and seven were rescued a second time by the life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Seasick baby Donaghadee lifeboat's open day was interrupted this summer by an unusual emergency. The lifeboat took a paramedic and a doctor to assist a baby who was suffering from severe seasickness. The mother and baby were taken tack...