LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Anina
Net in propeller AT 1640 on Friday, May 30, Humber Superintendent Coxwain B. W. Bevan heard from the Coastguard that the fishing boat Anina of Grimsby was drifting with a net in her propeller 11| miles south east of Spurn lighthouse. No...
Three New Lifeboats: (I to R) Stromness Stronsay and Thurso's Sarah Austin Moored at Thurso After Their Passage from London In 1909
Three new lifeboats: (I to r) Stromness, Stronsay and Thurso's Sarah Austin moored at Thurso after their passage from London in 1909.. - View image in PDF
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Annual Awards 1979
ANNUAL AWARDS 1979 The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman during 1979 has been made to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan for the rescue of the crew of four of the Panamanian cargo vessel Revi in a...
Category: Awards
Pish and Chase
At 3.30 p.m. on 19th August, 1969, while already at sea, a member of the crew of life-boat 44-001 on temporary duty at Sheerness saw a capsizeddinghy half a mile south west of Darnett Ness. There was a light wind with a slight sea. It was...
Volunteer
PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....
An Aeroplane
29th July. An aeroplane was reported to have dived into the sea, but the life- boat found nothing.—Rewards, £15 17s..
Progressive
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At one in the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1952, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Progressive, of Filey, had been at sea since dawn and anxiety was felt for the safety of her crew of six. The seas were...
Tenby Life-Boathouse
The Tenby life-boat rescued seven men from the St. Gowan lightvessel in a full gale (see page 592). - View image in PDF
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Swedish "Plaque of Merit"
Presented to the Institution by the Swedish Life-boat Society. - View image in PDF
(See page 334).. - View image in PDF
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