LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Phil-anthropic swim
EastEnders actor Steve McFadden, known to millions as Phil Mitchell, swam a mile across open water on 31 May to support the RNLI. He joined 38 other swimmers to cross the River Fal in Cornwall and finished in an impressive 46...
Category: Articles
A Small Rowing Boat
JUNE 9TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 8.15 in the evening a resident of Cwmyreglwys telephoned to the life-boat station that a small rowing boat, with a man and two women in it, was being blown out to sea. At nine...
Gratitude of Airmen.
Many of the launches of life-boats have been to the help of airmen.
When the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had been out to the rescue of a Hurricane fighter which had come down in the sea, the pilot's squadron...
Category: Articles
Remura
AUGUST 27TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that a vessel eight miles from Kinnaird Head required help. A fresh W.N.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was choppy. At 11.40 P.M...
Marion
ISLE of ARRAN, N.B.—On the 13th July, at about 11.30 P.M., during a strongN.E. wind and moderate sea, the pilot smack Marion, while cruising between Lamlash and Ailsa Craig, had her jib carried away; she afterwards stranded on the Carlin...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Lieut.-Commander HENDRIK DE BOOY has been appointed an honorary life-governor of-the Institution in recognition of his eminent services to the cause of life-saving at sea during the period of...
Category: Awards
Two Ex-Coxswains Drowned
ON the 25th of May a fishing coble, the Ricia, from Cloughey, Co. Down, went out lobster-fishing. She had three men on board, Andrew Young, his brother, John Young, and John's son, Andrew Young, junior. They were expected back before...
Category: Services
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-Boat Tows In a Yacht
This photograph was taken by the coxswain, Harold Hayles (see page 499). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
South Coast Rescue Boat
THE Institution has stationed one of its fast inshore rescue boats at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to help Yarmouth's 48-foot 6-inch life-boat in rescue coverage of the Needles Channel-Lymington area.
Yarmouth's new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Bower Awards
COXSWAIN John Sales of Lerwick and Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St.
Ives have both received gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund established by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation...
Category: Awards