LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Plymouth Motor Life-Boat: Inaugural Ceremony
THE Inaugural Ceremony, on 12th July, of the Plymouth Motor Life-boat, the third Life-boat to be built of the 60- feet Barnett Twin Screw type, was one of the most successful ever held. It took place in Plymouth's Civic Week, for which...
Category: Inaugurations
The Netherlands-Registered Yacht Rose Bank (1)
Determination in appalling conditions saves four 1-iftbtial.
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman was awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal, and his six-man crew received medal service certificates, following a hazardous rescue of...
News from the Branches. 1st April to 31st July
1st April to 31st July.
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON.—Life-boat day.
District conference. (For special report see page 131.) ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing. Amount...
Category: Branches
The French Motor Trawler Janock
Torbay, Devon.—At 9.7 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel had signalled for help eight miles east-north- east from Berry Head. The motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...
The Fundraisers
Palmer 'ands it over Easterners' dodgy geezer George Palmer (aka actor Paul Moriarty) presented a cheque to crew members of Brighton lifeboat in March. The presentation was held at the local pub, Spanish Lady, and was the result of a...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...
The Crew
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The...
Category: Articles
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus (1)
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
The Danish Life-Saving Service
FROM a communication received a short time since from Horr ANDERSEN, the Inspector of the Danish Life-saving Service, we learn that on the occasion of the visit of H.M. The KING OF DENMARK to the Skaw, on the 24th July last, a tabulated...
Category: Services