LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medal for Newbiggin, Northumberland
AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.
A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...
Category: Medals
Volant and Queen
THURSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the W., veering to N.E., between 7 and 8 o'clock on the evening of the 21st March, the schooners Volant, of Wick, and Queen, of Inverness, which were both lying far out in the roadstead,...
Aureity
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 26th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the tanker Aureity of Lon- don had fallen down a ladder and might have broken some ribs...
Coxswain Benjamin Armitage
Coxswain Benjamin Armitage of Hoylake died on the llth of August, 1960, at the age of 71. He was appoin- ted second coxswain in 1946 and cox- swain in 1948. He retired in 1951. In February 1943 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. New Orporto
Palling and Cromer, Norfolk.—The s.s. New Oporto, of West Hartlepool, ! whilst bound from Middlesborough to London with a cargo of iron, on the 8th January, stranded on the Middle Haisborough Sands. The crew of the Palling Life-boat...
Special Gifts
From the Sale of Lavender.
IT has already been mentioned in The Life-boat that last year money was made for Branches by the sale of flowers at the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton Life-boathouse, and also at Appledore. The...
Category: Donations
Fleetwood’s New Facility Was Designed By Local Architect Eric Forster And Is Sympathetic To Historic Buildings Around It
Fleetwood’s new facility was designed by local architect Eric Forster and is sympathetic to historic buildings around it. - View image in PDF
It includes a training room, communication centre, crew room and RNLI shop. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Star
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—In the afternoon of the 4th April, during thick but calm weather, a vessel was reported to be stranded on the Skerries, and signalguns were heard. At 2.30 the Life-boat B. J. Nicholson was launched, found the schooner Star,...
Gratefully Remembered
On 24th, September, 1939, just three weeks after war was declared, the Aldeburgh life-boat rescued the crew of 24 of a French steamer which had been torpedoed. The honorary secretary at Aldeburgh had a letter at the beginning of this year...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Harry R. Jones
Troon, Ayrshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 5th of January, 1961, the harbour master at Ardrossan informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Harry R. Jones of Wilmington, U.S.A.. on tow from the Clyde to Troon had parted the...