LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aridity
Walmer, Kent.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1953, ship- ping agents in Dover asked if the life- boat -would take a doctor to the motor vessel Aridity, of London, anchored off Deal, as a man in her had been flung across her...
Royal Helmsman:
Royal helmsman: Prince Michael ( Kent aboard Huv/ini; Island's Atlantic 21 lifeboat. The Prince had e presseil n wish (f nM&r a private visit to a lifeboat station and in May his wish wax fulfilled -lien Selsey'.s 47fl Tyne... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Friends, Provide Us and Serene (2)
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards
Mr. Edward Cochran, J.P., Paisley
The Paisley branch has suffered a severe loss by the death, in his eighty- eighth year, of its honorary secretary and treasurer, Mr. Edward Cochran, J.P. He had held that post for twenty- four years, and in 1922 was awarded the life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Ex-Motor Mechanic Thomas Sliney
EX-MOTOR MECHANIC THOMAS SLINEY, who for nearly 20 years served in that capacity with the Ballycotton, Co. Cork, life-boat, died on 23rd October, 1966.
He was awarded the silver medal in 1936 and the bronze medal in 1943...
Category: Obituaries
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Station secretary saves drowning man Trearddur Bay honorary secretary Jack Abbott was awarded a Royal Humane Society award and Resuscitation Certificate for saving the life of a man he found face down in the sea on 24...
Silver Comet
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7.30 p.m. on 9th March, 1966, a telephone message was received that the life-boat Solomon Browne was needed to meet the British ship Silver Comet, as there was an injured man on board who needed hospital attention. At...
Delabole
CLOVELLY.—At 5.30 A.M. on the 15th of September, the Life-boat on this station was launched during a heavy le from the N., and rescued the crew, consisting of three men, from the smack Delabole, of Fowey, bound from Par to Swansea with a...
Harriet
BLACKPOOL.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th April, while the wind was blowing strongly from the N.N.W. and a heavy sea was running, the fishing-smack Harriet, of Marshside, was observed in difficulties off...