LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steam Trawler
•—• 17th January.
A steam trawler had stranded and her crew were rescued by the life-saving apparatus while the life-boat played her searchlight on the trawler. The owners, Plymouth Trawlers, Ltd., presented a clock to the...
Obituary
SINCE the last issue of The Life-boat secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch, Mr. Keppel H. Foote, late district inspector of life-boats, Captain Thomas Pengilly, late coxswain at Clovelly, and ex-Coxswain William Miller, of Eyemouth....
Category: Obituaries
Paullgate
MEDALS FOR BLYTH COXSWAIN AND BOWMAN On the 18th November, 1962, the Blyth life-boat rescued two of the crew of the motor vessel Paullgate. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 402, Coxswain Thomas Fawcus was awarded the...
Tribute to Thurso Heroes
The people of Caithness paid tribute to the Thurso lifeboat crew at a civic reception in January in the Pentland hotel, Thurso.
Coxswain Farquhar and his crew were honoured for saving the skipper of the burning chemical... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saved! When William Goodwin Aged 8 and His Sister Maureen Aged 6 Were on Holiday at Lancing
When William Goodwin, aged 8, and his sister Maureen, aged 6, were on holiday at Lancing, Sussex, they launched a small boat they had found on the beach and were swept out to sea on 17th September, 1968.
After two hours... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sofa so good
RNLI supporters using internet auction site eBay raised £55,597 for the charity last year. Among them was Martin Craig from St Ives, Cornwall, who raised £99 by selling some old furniture.
He was helping his...
Category: Articles
Gretafield (1)
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....
Panachrandos
OC T . 1 9 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 5.50 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to go out to the Greek steamer Panachrandos A strong N.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 30TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.43 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed approximately E.N.E. from Frinton battery, close inshore, and at 8.10 P.M. the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched. A high westerly...
Sheringham - East Division
Sheringham's long straight and exposed coastline can be seen stretching away to the east in the main photo on the left, with the boathouse and slipway for the station's Atlantic 75 visible on the foreshore - tucked under the cliffs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs