LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helmsman Frank Dunster
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island was prevented by illness from attending the RNLI's annual presentation of awards meeting in London last May to receive the bar to his bronze medal; it was awarded to him for his part in the... - View image in PDF
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Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE l ik bur-h. on the Suffolk coast, has always been famous for its lifeboatmen, the Cable family being particularly remembered. Then there are the Woods. And this quarter's cover is of Coxswain Reuben ood who was... - View image in PDF
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Teal , Tinker
Fleetwood and Barrow, Lancashire - At 5.20 p.m. on i3th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the Fleetwood honorary secretary that a mayday call had been heard from a vessel south west of Lune buoy. This followed a report from Barrow that...
Sabre
COMBINED OPERATION Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 4.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a speed boat was in difficulties on Scroby Sands.
At 4.48 the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to...
Cover Picture
Hats off for the medallists! Pictured on hoard Galway Ba lifeboat Roy and Barbara Harding before this year's annual presentation of awards are those who received medals from HRH the Duchess of Kent. Left to right: John Pavill, Stephen... - View image in PDF
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Hartlepool April 26 1987:
Hartlepool, April 26, 1987: Crew member Tom Price splashes champagne over Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Burton Brewer, following her naming ceremony.
The boat was provided from an appeal in Burton-on-Trent,... - View image in PDF
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A Dinghy
Divers found AT 2018 on July 25, 1987 Falmouth Coastguard MRCC received a report of an overdue dinghy with four people on board - two men, a woman and child - and alerted Falmouth's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Sole Bay, which...
Portsmouth Lifeboat Named
Blustery showers and dark skies could not spoil the enjoyment of all present at Portsmouth lifeboat station on 26 April 1997 when their new Atlantic 75 lifeboat was named CSMA-Fhzzell, by Mr Colin Frizzell, past chairman of the Frizzell... - View image in PDF
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Roy Clemo
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...
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by Portsmouth Publishing and Printing Calshot's Brede class lifeboat Foresters Future holds station alongside the yacht Software Mistress in the Solent while the lifeboat crew prepare to take off an injured crew member.
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