LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Concerto and Martez (1)
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
Books
• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...
Category: Articles
Tribute to the Brave
Tribute to the brave The day of the annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall ends with an after-theatre supper at the Rubens Hotel for all the medallists and their families. Mrs Anne Wall has very generously made this...
Category: Articles
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
September Meeting.
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 18th June the honorary secretary received a telephone...
Category: Services
Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc
The following is a list of the cases in which Rewards have been granted for sav- ing life, during the year 1851-2, laid be- fore the Annual Meeting in accordance with ' Rule 13 of the Institution.
Jan. 2.—The emigrant...
Category: Medals
None (2)
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1951, the Zetland medical officer for health asked if the life-boat would take a doctor to Fair Isle to treat a sick man, as the regular mail boat was under- going repairs....
Harriet
On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah Jane Turner was...
A U.S.A. Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.
Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....
A U.S.A. Liberator Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.
Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....