LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mudeford Guild
Under 'Dog's Luck' in the January Journal (page 9), the £350 reported to have been raised was, in fact, raised by the Mudeford ladies' life-boat guild. During the last financial year the Mudeford ladies handed...
Category: Donations
Schermuly Ltd
don't forget your flares lads! You may never need them - we hope you never do ! But it makes good sense to carry a pack of signal flares . . . as important as your lifejacket. Just in case THE WORLD'S BEST BY SCHERMULY See page 351...
Category: Advertisement
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Presenting Captain J. D. Jeavons, a Member of the Crew of the Moelfre Life-Boat, With the Bronze Medal for his Part in the Nafsiporos Episode on 2nd December, 1966
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, presenting Captain J. D.
Jeavons, a member of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat, with the bronze medal for his part in the Nofsiporos episode on 2nd December, 1966 (see THE LIFE-BOAT for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Oil Rig Sea Gem (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire. On 28th December, 1965, the life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem.
A full account of this service appears on page 63..
Cover Picture
courtesy of The Hull Daily Mail The Humber lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall is dwarfed by the blazing oil tanker Phillips Oklahoma. Sixteen seamen were taken off the tanker after a collision on 17 September 1989. Full details of the service on page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (17)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. The life-boat helped in bringing wounded men ashore from a vessel.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from Dunkirk,” page 80..
A Royal Naval Air Service Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 21ST. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. A Royal Naval Air Service aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a small boat from the shore.
- Rewards, £13 13s. (See Easthaven, “Services by Shore-boats...
Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 21 ST. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. The life-boat rescued twenty eight people from the Greek steamer Eugenie S. Embiricos on January 22nd and landed sheep and provisions on January 26th. For details, see January 10th, page 12.
The Greek Motor Vessel Nafsiporos
Douglas, Isle of Man; Holy head and Moelfre, Anglesey - On 2nd December, 1966, the Douglas, Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats were launched to the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos. A full account of this service, for which two gold medals were...
The St. Cybi, Civil Service No. 9
A model of the 52-feet Barnett Stromness life-boat at Holyhead, made by Mr. F. A. Gordon of the Royal Air Force Establishment, Farnborough. and presented by him to the Institution (See page 405). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs