LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Professor Edgar A. Pask
The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...
Category: Awards
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS PATTON, on his retirement, alter serving for 27J years as Coxswain of the Portrush Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension.
To MATTHEW GRUNNILL, on his retirement, after serving for 23J...
Category: Awards
Painting Life-Boats. General Rules
PAINTING LIFE-BOATS.
General Rules.
1. IT will be desirable, that in or about the month of May in each year, or as soon as fine summer weather shall have fairly set in, and the exercise for the current...
Category: Articles
Stormy Stan Says...
Stormy Stan, the hero of 'Storm Force', the RNLI's club for the under-16s, appears regularly in the club's magazine Storm Force News. Here is a taster of the tales he spins and the advice he gives to young...
Category: Articles
Peter Williams a Slitting Mill Primary School Boy Who at the Age of 6 Was Successful In the 'Blue Peter' Life-Boat Poster Competition (The Life-Boat December 1969) Pict
Peter Williams, a Slitting Mill primary school boy, who at the age of 6 was successful in the 'Blue Peter' life-boat poster competition (THE LIFE-BOAT, December, 1969), pictured with his mother, Mrs. Heather Williams (left), when... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—The Life-boat placed on this station twenty years since by the Institution has recently been replaced by a new self-righting ' boat, 37 ft. long, 9 ft. 3 in. wide, and rowing twelve oars, double banked; she is pro-...
Category: Articles
Three Weeks After the Visit of the Duke of Kent
Three weeks after the visit of the Duke of Kent to the north east, Hartlepoois lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney The Scout and the At/antic 21 Guide Friendship III. and Teesmouth lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Sarah Jane and James Season, were once... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heron II
Rescued two FOLLOWING SEVERAL 999 CALLS from citizen band radio operators reporting a distress call from the cabin cruiser Heron II, Liverpool Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Flint lifeboat station at 1945 on the evening of...
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
MARCH No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 4.30 p.m. on 28th March, 1970, the life-boat's motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was signalling for assistance off Scarlet point. After confirmation...
Category: Services
R.A.F. Rescue Launch No. 164
MARCH 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 6.25 P.M . the Hoylake coastguard reported a motor boat in difficulties on Burbo Bank, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. A moderate S.E. wind was...