LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Posthumous Awards
Early this year at a private ceremony held at Longhope, Orkney, posthumous awards for gallantry were presented by The Duke of Atholl, Convenor of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal...
Category: Awards
Lifesavers honored
Three lifeboat volunteers from Port Isaac, Cornwall (pictured, above), will be awarded RNLI Medals for Gallantry, after saving a man’s life on 8 April.
Helm Damien Bolton will receive the Silver Medal, while Crew Members...
Category: Articles
Thistle
On the 24th December, at 9 A.M., the smack Thistle, of Oastletown, bound from Ramsey to Castletown, having parted her principal cables and sprung a leak, hoisted signals of distress. It was blowing a heavy gale at S.W., and the Life-boat Two...
Glance, Green Flag, Safe Return and Jackdaw
COURTOWN, IRELAND. — On the 16th October, at I P.M., the Alfred and Ernest Life-boat was called out by signals of distress, and brought ashore fourteen men from the fishing-boats Glance, Green Flag, Safe Return, and Jackdaw, of Arklow,...
Royal
On the 3rd March in consequence of the westerly wind increasing to a gale—the sea already being high—the small fishing coble Royal, which was at 12.30 P.M.
about six miles off Newbiggin with no other vessel near her, was...
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will have a reproduction on it in colours of the picture above. It is an old painting, recently presented to the Institution, of Grace...
Category: Advertisement
Motor Fishing Vessels
Whitby, Yorkshire - At n a.m. on 2ist November, 1966, the coxswain decided that conditions were such that the life-boat should be launched to stand by three motor fishing vessels returning from fishing in deteriorating weather. At 11.10 the...
Lifeboat People
Lifeboat People IN THE NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST the British Empire Medal was awarded to Alfred William Lacey, who has been the motor mechanic of Margate lifeboat since 1947; from 1940 to 1947 he served as assistant...
Category: Articles
A Vessel
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire - At 1.20 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, information was received that a small vessel anchored half a mile north of St. Anne's pier appeared to be in difficulties. The IRB was launched first but as she...
Mizpah
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — During a south-westerly gale on the 20th August the yacht Mizpah, of Liverpool, which had been anchored in the bay overnight, dragged her anchor and was quickly driven out to sea. A rough sea was running and the...