LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Medal for Gallantry
SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals, struck in 1825, had the head of George IV. Although, on his accession to the throne in...
Category: Medals
A Sailing Boat
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 1.10 p.m. on 22nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary Secretary that a small sailing boat was in difficulties near Fame Islands. At 1.30 the inshore rescue boat launched...
A Sailing Dinghy
SAILING DINGHY BEACHED AFTER CAPSIZE Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 24th August, 1962, the mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half north-east of Arklow harbour. The...
A Catamaran and Otter
YACHT RESCUES CREW OF CAPSIZED CATAMARAN Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 11.25 on the morning of the 16th September, 1962, the life-boat coxswain, while working in his garden, saw what appeared to be a capsized yacht drifting down channel off...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Aberystwyth D class inflatable lifeboat was launched on the morning of Tuesday January 12 to go out to meet a fishing boat bringing in people from New Quay and taking back medical supplies and yeast. There were breaking seas on the harbour...
A Rowing Boat (2)
AUGUST 31ST. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 12.5 P.M. the coastguard reported that a small rowing boat was making signals of distress two miles N. by E. from Porthdinllaen Point. A light but increasing S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
A Vessel (36)
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel was reported to need help off Skerryvore Lighthouse, but no definite position could be given ; visibility was nil, and the life-boat abandoned the search. A second message was received that...
A Fishing Coble
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 9.15 p.m. on 25th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was in difficulties three miles from the Tyne look-out. The lifeboat Tynesider was launched at 9.25 in a moderate northerly breeze and...
A Fishing Vessel
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.40 a.m. on 30th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small fishing vessel had fired red flares from a position half a mile east of the harbour. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at...
A Washington Aircraft (4)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...