LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (2)
JULY 24TH. - ABERDEEN. At 9.5 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had seen a yellow dinghy about seven miles to the south-east of Aberdeen.
At 9.25 the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was...
Scottish Maid
A fortnight later, on Thursday June 4, the fishing vessel Scottish Maid on passage from Wick to Kirkwall went ashore half a mile south of Noss Head Light; there were three men on board.
It was a fine night with variable...
Lady Theresa
Four rescued EARLY ON FRIDAY, November 12, 1982, the 17ft 6in fishing boat Lady Theresa was seen leaving Redcar and, as it was a rough morning, a watch was kept on her from the lifeboathouse. At 1213 a passer by informed Coxswain David...
SURFER TRAPPED IN RIP
BANTHAM | 4 MAY
Lifeguards at Bantham, Devon, were among the first to start their patrols this year, and they were called into action on 4 May when a surfer was caught in a rip current. Two lifeguards...
Category: Articles
Mrs. M. E. Pecover
Mrs. Mary E. Pecover, an honorary life-governor of the Institution, died on loth February, 1964. She was appointed honorary secretary of the Thame branch in 1925, received the gold badge awarded to honorary workers nine years later, and...
Category: Obituaries
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., who was lost with his crew on the night of 18th March, 1969, while on service (see page 594). He was awarded his first silver medal in 1959for saving 14 from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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A rescue party waits to take an injured man from aboard the Teignmouth lifeboat to hospital. The man had fallen down cliffs on 18 March at Ansley's Cove in Torquay and suffered a broken ankle. He was carried a further 30ft to the base of...
Fishing Boats (7)
OCT. 26TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
A whole N.E. by N. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea in Eyemouth Bay. Four local fishing boats were waiting to enter the port. The motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
An American Thunderjet Fighter (1)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...