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Annual Awards 1980

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...

Category: Awards

Jimmy Benney

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Jimmy Benney has been head launcher at St Ives for 13 years. Before that, for 17 years, he was a member of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Helmsman R Alan Forrester

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

Helmsman R. Alan Forrester has been a member of Flint D class inflatable lifeboat crew since 1971; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1983.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

John Clemens Kennedy

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

December John Clemens Kennedy JP, Newquay branch chairman since 1965. Also an crew member until he was 45, Mr Kennedy was awarded the gold badge in 1986 and gold bar in 1994..

Category: Obituaries

Stop press

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

As the Lifeboat went to print, we heard that Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle’s successor when he retires in September will be Paul Boissier.

Category: Articles

A Launch at Aldeburgh In 1872

Date: February 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 309

The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat " George HounsfieU." She served from 1870-1890, and rescued 99 lives. - View image in PDF

She is still at Aldeburgh, and is used as a store on the beach.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Crusader

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

Margate, Kent.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, with two boys on board, appeared to have broken down and to be drifting seawards. She was one and a half miles...

Gallilee, Success, Pilot Me and Provider

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

MCH. 15TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

During the morning five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E.

wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea.

The sea increased and at 10...

Ina and Johnstones

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Nov. 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 10 A..M. a message was received from the Blyth coastguard that two local fishing boats, Ina and Johnstones, were at sea.

A S.E. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea.<...

River Ythan

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

AUGUST 11TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.

At 11 P.M. the naval officer in command asked for the life-boat to go out to a vessel aground on Pilling Sands. She was the trawler River Ythan, of Fleetwood, loaded with fish and...