LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain/Asst. Mechanic Brian Patten. Achill Island
Coxswain/Asst. Mechanic Brian Patten.
Achill Island Received the Silver Medal (or u service to a fishing vessel in atrocious weather conditions, "...he pushed the lifeboat lo her limit m ihe hea y sea.' See the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
30,000Th Member for Offshore
Roger Tomkins from Norwich has become the 30,000th person to join the RNLI's membership grade for sea users. Offshore. To mark the occasion, marketing manager David Brann presented a delighted Roger, accompanied by Sarah Shadbolt, with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services by Shore-boats
Thirteen Medals for Gallantry RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY On the 28th August, 1941, determined efforts were made to rescue the crew of a British aeroplane which had crashed in the sea.
MR. DERRICK H. BAYNHAM was awarded the silver...
Category: Services
H.M. Ship
JUNE 22ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
The life-boat had put out at the request of the naval authorities to bring ashore an injured man from one of H.M. ships, and a doctor who had been put aboard by seaplane, but the ship could...
A Steamer (1)
NOVEMBER 4TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The life-boat went out to help in an attempt to salve a steamer which had been stranded since 1939. On the 20th of October she had gone out for the same purpose. The operaions were again...
Alexandra, of Whitstable
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally...
Bembridge
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT On the 29th January, 1940, the Bembridge life-boat rescued the crew of twentyone of H.M. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm.
COXSWAIN HARRY J. GAWN was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
An Aeroplane (94)
AUGUST 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A German aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the men in it had managed to climb on board the near-by wreck of the steamer Harcola, but they were picked up by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £7...
A Tug (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. A tug had been mined, and one of the tug’s crew of five was rescued, badly injured, by the hopper which the tug had had in tow, but nothing else of the tug but wreckage could be found.- Rewards,...
Quick Work
The Selsey coxswain saw an airman crash nearly a mile out at sea. He summoned the crew at once, and the life-boat rescued the airman just twenty minutes after he came down. Fifteen minutes later he was safe ashore..
Category: Articles