LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Plymouth
PLYMOUTH, DEVON On the 13th January, 1942, the Plymouth life-boat saved a Sunderland Flying Boat of the Royal Australian Air Force and rescued her crew of two.
COXSWAIN WALTER D. CROWTHER was awarded the bronze...
Category: Medals
An Exhibition of Old Bibles
An exhibition of early English bibles, belonging to Mr. E. Newgass, honorary secretary of the Steyning branch, was held in Worthing for the Institution by Mr. J. R. Aldridge, for many years the honotaty secretary at...
Category: Articles
Ferry collision
7 March: Bangor and Donaghadee lifeboats launched on the evening of 7 March after a passenger ferry and a cargo vessel collided in Belfast Lough. There were no injuries. The lifeboats helped assess the damage to...
Category: Articles
Auchincruive, of Grangemouth
On the 1st November, the schooner Auchimcruive, of Grangemouth, stranded in a strong gale and very heavy sea off Banff Harbour. The Banff life-boat pro- ceeded at once to her and took off her crew of 6 persons, the vessel shortly after...
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars
In the last number of THE LIFE-BOAT (pages 160-161) reference was made to the Institution's Christmas cards and calendars. A colour leaflet showing the full range is enclosed with this issue, together with an order form. It is hoped that...
Category: Advertisement
Fairey Marine Group
FAIREY MARINE GROUP You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of seaworthiness....
Category: Advertisement
Industry II
Dungeness, Kent - At 10. 50 p.m. on 8th August, 1966, a fishing boat needed assistance four and a half miles south east of Dungeness. At 11.5 the life-boat MabelE. Holland was launched in a rough sea and a strong westerly wind. It was 90...
Grave Omission:
Grave omission: when he died in 1904 Henry Freeman, coxswain of Whitby lifeboat who had helped save over 300 lives was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. Four boys from Whitby School considered it was high lime the town honoured one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...
Category: Correspondence
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 20th of March, 1954, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a very sick man to Lochboisdale, where arrangements had been made to fly him to Glasgow. At 10.51 the...