LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Taki
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.17 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather west of the Barmouth bar....
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (9)
On the 26th November, 1939, the Lytham-St. Annes life-boat got alongside the Mersey pilot boat Charles Livingstone, but the men on board, who were rescued later by the Blackpool life-boat, refused to leave her.
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Category: Articles
B. E. M. for Hoylake Life-Boatman.
Sidney Triggs, a member of the life-boat crew at Hoylake, and now a leading-torpedoman in the Navy, has been awarded the British Empire Medal. He is one of seven brothers of whom three are in the Navy; one is about to enter the Navy; two are...
Category: Articles
Silver Medal for Padstow
On the izth of August the Padstow No.i. life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the steamer "Kedah" close under St. Agnes Head, in a full gale and huge, confused seas. It was only at the third attempt, after being twice damaged, that...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (3)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
Kay Alexander (pictured centre)
What led BBC Midlands Today presenter Kay Alexander (pictured centre) to a conviction that she must support the RNLI?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
La Boussole
Sinking yacht JERSEY RADIO received a MAYDAY relay call at 2215 on the night of Sunday August 5, 1984. The 25ft French sloop, La Boussole, had hit a rock north of Alderney and was sinking. Alderney lifeboat station was notified and at 2233...
Cerealia
Crew's 'fine teamwork' during 16-hour service The crew of Wells Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill have been commended following a 16-hour service which 'was dominated by a fine display of teamwork' in winds...
Industry
A signal of distress was observed from a vessel in Forthdinllaen Bay during a strong gale from the N.W. on the 22nd December. The crew of the George Moore Life-boat immediately assembled, the Boat was launched at 5.30 P.M. and rescued the...
Milan
PORT EYNON.—At 7 P.M. on the 13th January the Daughter's Offering Life-boat was launched during a dense fog and a heavy ground sea, and succeeded in rescuing eleven of the crew of the steamer Milan, of Hull, bound from Alexandria for...