LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Second Life-Boat Medal Awarded Forty-Five Years Later
AT the age of 62 Coxswain Henry Nicholas, of Sennen Cove life-boat, has been awarded the bronze second service clasp for gallantry. Nearly 45 years earlier he won his first bronze medal at the age of 17 when the Sen- nen Cove life-boat...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1990
Aberdeen, Grampian Arun ON 1050: September 30 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 2, 9 (four times), 11, 20, 27, September I, October 6 (twice), 14 and 21 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 5 (three times), 15, 18, 20, September 6 and...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
West Division Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Moelfre lifeboat station was informed by Holyhead Coastguard at 0845 on Sunday September 21, 1980, that the yacht July Morn had reported that she was in difficulties, her rudder broken,...
Category: Services
A Canoeist Comes Ashore at Dugort Pier After a Rescue By the Achill Lifeboat
A canoeist comes ashore at Dugort Pier after a rescue by the Achill lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Southend-On-Sea May 2 1986:
Southend-on-Sea, May 2, 1986: on a brilliant day, with bunting splashing colour across the blue skies, Princess Anne came to Southend-on-Sea to name a new lifeboat after a local hero. She met and talked to station officials, crew members and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters and Membership
etter All letters featured here relate to the Inshore Lifeboat Centre (ILC) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where all RNLI inshore lifeboats are built and maintained, as featured in the winter 2005/06 issue of the Lifeboat Our cover features...
Category: Correspondence
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FEBRUARY 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A very heavy explosion had been heard five to six miles E.S.E. of Aldeburgh.
The life-boat found a large patch of oil or coal dust and followed it for two miles, but...
(below) a bouquet for Lady Killanin, who named the lifeboat
(below) a bouquet for Lady Killanin, who named the lifeboat, is presented by Rosemary Quig/ey, daughter of the deputy launching authority; with them is Mr Clayton Love, a vice-president of the RNLI.
photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emmanuel, Margaret Anne, and Kate and Videt
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 2.35 p.m. on 14th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles, one of which had 25 passengers on board, were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
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Rnli Shoreline
How even a non-swimmer can save someone from drowning Join Shoreline now. Why Shoreline ? Last year the RNLI saved 1,704 lives. This year we expect to save even more. In order to maintain the service we need £3'Am every...
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