LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescuers Sign a Lifejacket for the Rescued at a 'Thank-You' Dinner for the Crew at Yarmouth Isle of Wight
Rescuers sign a lifejacket for the rescued at a 'thank-you' dinner for the crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight: (I to r) Nigel Fitzgerald and David Gimson, the two rescued fishermen. Motor Mechanic Robert Cooke, Derek Huffam, station... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Ivy Ball,
Mrs Ivy Ball, vice president of the Wellington branch. She was founder member of the branch which formed in 1938 and secretary from 1951 to 1975. She was awarded the silver badge in 1958..
Category: Obituaries
Carey Wexford, Karl Stott and Roy Stott
Left to right: Carey Wexford, Karl Stott and Roy Stott Carey and Roy photos: Haydn Jones. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1993 Awards
Awards to Coxswains, crew members and shore helpers 1993 The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's...
Category: Awards
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, December 1940 issue Four Months of War The first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service...
Category: Articles
Duchess, a Schooner, Julia, Cornucopia, et al (1)
At 12.30 A.M. on the 7th November the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the Kentish Knock Sand, the master of a fishingsmack having reported that there was a vessel ashore there. The wind was blowing moderately...
The Maud Smith Award
The late Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope, who lost his life when the life-boat capsized on 17th March, had a few days before been told that he had been elected to receive the annual gift of £5 from the Miss Maud Smith endow-...
Category: Awards
Pack of Cards
Dover, Kent. At 5.27 on the afternoon of the 4th September, 1961. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Pack of Cards was drift- ing three miles west of the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa left her...