LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1981 has been made to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port for the rescue on December 13 of 29 of the crew of the motor vessel Bonita, listing to 45 degrees in the...
Category: Awards
Solihull Appeal
Although the Borough of Solihull Lifeboat Appeal formally closed in September of last year, money kept flooding in after that date and the total raised was £41,310.74.
The money will be used to purchase a new Atlantic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contents
News 2 Including: honoured heroes and the Lifeboats Mastercard Feature: Lofty lifesavers 8 Come for the ride with a Royal Navy helicopter crew Peep into the past 12 Including: promptitude, and Christmas goodies to a lighthouse Feature: A...
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Prince
JAN. 16TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 6.55 P.M. it was reported that the open motorfishing boat Prince, of Torquay, with three men on board, was overdue on a trip from Torquay to Brixham, and that owing to the poor condition of her engine anxiety...
Marigold
APRIL 22ND. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Early in the afternoon a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged. She was kept under observation by the coastguard and lifeboatmen.
A strong N.W....
Teymar
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Aighai and Mistley
JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a second vessel had grounded on South Scroby Sands....
Carew Belle
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a small yacht in distress one mile to the south-east of Tenby lookout. A strong north-west breeze was blowing and the sea was choppy....
A Torpedoed Collecting Box
The chief engineer of one of the steamers of the Holt Line who regularly brings to the office of the Institution's Port of Liverpool Branch a life-boat collecting box to be emptied, called a short time ago, full of apologies, because the...
Category: Articles
Colonel Satterthwaite
Lieut.-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. who came to the Institution as deputy-secretary in 1924, and has been secretary since 1931, retires at the end of this year. In announcing it at the annual meeting Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt,, said:...
Category: Articles