LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A British Spitfire Aeroplane and a German Heinkel
APRIL 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. A British Spitfire fighter aeroplane and a German Heinkel bomber had come down in the sea thirty miles east of Hartlepool, but the five German airmen and the British pilot were rescued...
H.M. Destroyers G51 and H78
OCTOBER 17TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the morning the coastguard reported that two vessels were ashore off Whitburn.
A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough...
A Convoy
OCTOBER 2ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A south-bound convoy had been attacked by German aeroplane; and one of the aeroplanes had been brought down, but a destroyer picked up the survivors of its crew, and there were no...
An Aeroplane (159)
OCTOBER 2lST. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A British aeroplane was reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless as it was learned later that the aeroplane had landed safely. - Rewards, £12 7s....
St. Davids
ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE Landing Craft G.16.
On the 25th April, 1943, the St. David’s life-boat rescued a survivor from H.M.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM WATTS H. WILLIAMS was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
A British Warwick Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
A British Warwick aeroplane had made a forced landing on the sea, but while the life-boat was searching she learned, by wireless, that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £20 0s....
Home of hulls
SAR Composites Ltd, an RNLI subsidiary company, has acquired the lifeboat hull construction facility previously owned by Green Marine Ltd. Contracts were signed in January, securing the long-term future of all-weather lifeboat hull...
Category: Articles
Griff’s hidden depths
He was once best known as a TV funnyman, but these days Griff Rhys Jones is serious about theatre, documentaries and indulging in his passion for sailing
Griff is enjoying treading the boards. After a spate of television...
Category: Articles
Mug-In-Time Canteen for Blyth.
The Inner Circle of Ladies' Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland have, through the Women's Voluntary Service, presented the Blyth Station with a portable canteen (known as a "mug-in-time" canteen) containing two thermos urns...
Category: Articles
204 Medals
In the five years life-boatmen have been awarded by the Institution 7 gold, 41 silver and 153 bronze medals. They have also won two Distinguished Service Medals, four British Empire Medals and one George Medal. In all they have won 204...
Category: Articles