LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Director's First Draw
New RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle drew the lifeboat lottery for the first time on 30 April.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary Jane
Swanage, Dorset - At 3.51 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Swanage bay. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 4.2 in a fresh north westerly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was flooding.<...
Bezaleel
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 4.50 in the morning, on the 7th of September, 1950, a fishing boat skipper reported that the motor fishing boat Bezaleel, of Banff, had wirelessed that she had sprung a leak, and needed help. A later message...
1d. For Each Life Rescued
THE Herts Advertiser of St. Albans, writes that one of the honorary workers for the St. Albans branch, when she read the record of lives rescued by lifeboats during the first month of the war, gave to the branch one penny for each...
Category: Donations
Players Ltd.
PLAYER'S N96 Quality guaranteed by Player's What accounts for the extraordinary popularity of Player's N96? It's really quite simple. Player's N96 offers consistent high quality and mildness, at the right price. The high...
Category: Advertisement
Ben Glas
INJURED HAND At 6.30 a.m. on 2gth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was on board the trawler Ben Glas a crew member whose hand had been severed and was bleeding profusely.
The Ben Glas...
Silvia Onorato
Walmer, Kent.—On the fourth of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No. 2, rescued 30 lives from the Italian steamer Silvia Onorato. The coxswain was awarded the silver medal for gallantry, the motor mechanic the...
Padstow
PADSTOW, CORNWALL On the 23rd November, 1944, the Padstow life-boat rescued seven of the crew of the S.S. Sjofna, of Norway., SECOND MOTOR MECHANIC WILLIAM ORCHARD, acting as coxswain, was awarded the silver medal.
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Category: Medals
Rosaline
Buckie, Banffshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel aground on the West Muck rocks, three quarters of a mile from Buckie harbour, was burning flares....
Chrysea
At 1.10 A.M.
on the 24th November the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Kilnsea. The sea was smooth, but a fog had come down, and it was de- cided to send out the...