LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (3)
On the 10th October, 1939, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Saltaire, of Grimsby. Later the men returned to their ship, with the owner’s agent, and seven were rescued a second time by the life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1898
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES IN 1898.
Lives saved.
Addgunde, barque, of Tonsberg 12 Albert, ketch, of Watchet......... 3 Anglo-Saxon, barge — rendered assistance.
Annie Warren, sch.,...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 12.20 a.m. on I5th June, 1967, a report was received that shouts for help were coming from the sea off Sandycover Point. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 12.35 m a calm sea. The tide was...
Kentish Hoy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.- At 10.25 P.M., on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the Felixstowe eoastguard, through the Walton-on- Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork...
Coxswain Cross Again.
Coxswain Robert Cross of the Humber, who has won, since war began, the George Medal, the Institution's gold medal, a clasp to his silver medal and the thanks of the Institution on vellum, has now won also a clasp to his bronze medal.<...
Category: Articles
Kingfisher
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 4.20 p.m. on 30th December, 1966, a small motor cruiser was seen to be in difficulties about a quarter of a mile north east of the harbour entrance.
The Life-boat Louise Stephens...
H.M. Motor Launch E.C. 83
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a naval motor launch had run ashore at Black Rock, Whitecliff Bay, and at 4.13 the life-boat Milburn, on temporary duty...
Life-Boat Services In 1910
Lives saved.
Aberystwith, two small fishing boatsot 2 Adela, fishing boat, of Llan- dudno— saved boat and 2 Aeron Belle, schooner, of Aber- ystwith 3 Agamemnon, s.s., of Liverpool stood by vessel.
Agnes...
Category: Services
Princely Donation:
Princely donation: the Fred Olsen Lines shipping company has generously presented the RNLI with a further £2,000 to complete the purchase of a third lifeboat in its name. Already paid for by the company are a D class inflatable and an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Farringay (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire - At n p.m. on 2ist March, 1967, news was received that the m.v. Farringay was aground on Salters Bank and a tug was awaiting high water to tow her off. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the...