LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Again, on the night of the 10th Oct., this Life-boat was instrumental in saving the schooner Qoldfinder, of Belfast, which was on the point of beaching on the lee side of the Bay in a S.W. gale, by signalling to a steam-tug, which, with the...

helmsman; Crew Members John Ashford, Brian Gaunter and Derek Winning were taken ashore together with a bucket stretcher (itself on trial) and an Ashford first aid pack. The best ledge from which to embark the boy was 35ft above the sea, but... - View image in PDF

IN September the Institution received an anonymous gift of £10,000 from a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The gift was made, in the words of the donor, "in admiration of the magnificent work of the Institution" and as...

Fishing boat sinks AT 1235 on Thursday August 21, 1986, Oban Coastguard informed Mr A.

McLellan, honorary secretary of Mallaig lifeboat station, that a fishing vesselhad struck rocks on the south coast of Rhum and required...

SKEGNESS.—The Herbert Ingram Lifeboat was launched at 11.30 A.M., on the 28th January, during a strong breeze from the N., snow-squalls, and a rough sea, in response to signals of distress, and found the brig Starbeam, of and for Boston,...

JUNE 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...

Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 1.30 P.M.

on the 26th October, 1939, the coxswain telephoned that he had had a fishing boat under observation since noon.

She was trying to beat up from about three miles south of...

Leonard Lawrence, coxswain of Selsey lifeboat from 1960 until his retirement in 1961. He joined the crew in 1918, and was bowman from 1943 until 1952 when he became second coxswain until his appointment as coxswain in 1960. After his...