LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Westown (1)
FEBRUARY 21 ST. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 10.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore near the Penzer Rocks The weather was foggy, with a southerly wind and a moderate sea. At 11.15 P.M. the motor life-boat W...
Life-Boat Crews and Income Tax
Mr. John Nott, M.P. for St. Ives, has received a letter from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Harold Lever, stating that the service rewards made to members of life-boats crews will continue to be subject to income...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obeerm.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
Launches
_Listing ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Oct27 D-536:Oct 24,27; Nov 11 ABERDOVEY B-75& Sep 13,29;Oa 2.3(x2),22; Nov 23 ABERSOCH B-582: Sep 5,13.15,20 ABERYSTWYTH B-704;Sep 1.3,8,29(x2); Oct 3(x2),6.9(x3) ACHILL ISLAND ON-122B(14-24):Sep19; Oct 9...
Category: Services
September (1)
CROY, DUNURE, AYRSHIRE. While working on Croy shore about 12.30 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, two men saw an aeroplane crash into the sea about half a mile from the shore. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The pilot got...
Category: Services
A Large Vessel
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—2nd July. A large vessel was reported to have foundered after blowing her siren.
Visibility was poor and actually the vessel had disappeared into the fog.—• Rewards £5 12s..
None (7)
JANUARY 13TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Distress signals on a ship’s siren had been heard, but no vessel could be found. Two mines were seen and reported. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
Thanks from the RAF
When an R.A.F. Gnat trainer crashed into the sea—the two pilots ejected from the aircraft before it crashed—on 8th June, 1968, the Holyhead life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was quick off the mark. Group Captain W....
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Painting
The well-known artist, Ben Maile, who has been selected as one of Britain's top ten artists by the Fine Art Guilds for the past three years, has painted a new painting of the St Ives lifeboat at sea. An edition limited to 600 of signed...
Category: Articles
Falcon
Barrow, Lancashire - At 5 p.m. on 24th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Falcon appeared to be in difficulty at the south end of Walney.
The IRB was launched to investigate at...