LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stephen Iredale
Stephen Iredale Staithes and Runswick helmsman Stephen Iredale has been awarded the Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the rescue of a lone sailor from the trimaran SIS (Spring 2001 issue, p. 10). The annual award is presented for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An R.N.A.S. Seafire Aeroplane
JULY 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
An R.N.A.S. Seafire aeroplane had crashed in the sea near the shore, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £5 13s.
Later the life-boat tractor helped to recover...
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1919
The Editor acknowledges most gratefully the active and valuable co-operation which the Life-boat cause has received from the head teachers and staffs of schools throughout the country, and would appeal for further help in the work of...
Category: Articles
Zem Zem, of London
JULY 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
As soon as the motor life-boat J. B.
Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, returned at 4.40 in the afternoon, after towing the boat Harriett into...
Echo, of Lowestoft
The Yarmouth large Life-boat Mark Lane was taken afloat on the 8th March, as the fishing-lugger Echo, of Lowestoft, was seen to be in great danger, she having become unmanageable during a heavy gale from S.W. by S. Driving down Yar- mouth...
Letters and Membership
Dear Editor Further to your recent rescue account from Appledore, I thought your readers might be interested in the attached.
We acquired Boarding Boat 132 in 1994 after nearly 30 years' service at Appledore lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
Mrs Peggy Mabe,
October 1996 Mrs Peggy Mabe, president of Fishguard and Goodwick ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Mabe was a founder member of the guild in 1961 and held the office of treasurer during her time on the committee, becoming president in 1989. She was...
Category: Obituaries
Arbroath Memorial
A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...
Category: Articles
Calypso V
YACHT AND FOUR TOWED TO SAFETY Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.17 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile off Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank...
Jorjika
At 6.37 p.m. on 26th July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties off Holland-on-Sea beach. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 7 o'clock in a gentle south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The IRB was also...