LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Pearson, Crew Member of Whitby's All Weather and Inshore Lifeboats Since 1987.
John Pearson, crew member of Whitby's all weather and inshore lifeboats since 1987.
John was awarded a Bronze medal in 1993 in recognition of his high standard of seam a n s h i p , boathandling skills and bravery when... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brereton, of Liverpool
On the night of the 18th January the watchman reported flares and rockets in the neighbourhood of the Splough Rock, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was launched. As usual, Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
Fond farewell to volunteering trio
Having given almost two-thirds of a century to the RNLI between them, three Scottish volunteers are retiring this year. After clocking up 14 years (and 6,625 nautical miles), Peter ‘Ped’ McKinnon is retiring from his role as full-time...
Category: Articles
Auld Reekie
This Life-boat again did excellent ser- vice on the 21st October. Soon after dark on that day the schooner Auld 'Reekie, bound from Middlesborough to Barcelona with pitch, got ashore on the North Gare, at the entrance of the Biver Tees....
Conference: (R to I) Commander David Wilford Rnr Superintendent of Depot Mick Wheeler Assistant Superintendent of Works Depot and Ron Taylor Machine Shop For
Conference: (r. to I.) Commander David Wilford, RNR, superintendent of depot, Mick Wheeler, assistant superintendent of works depot, and Ron Taylor, machine shop foreman.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ketches Flower of Essex, Enterprise, Lord Beresford and Eustace
MARGATE.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 29th November, a message was received at Margate from the Coastguard at Epple Bay, stating that a barge was ashore half a mile east of that place; at the same time the Coastguard at Birchington reported a barge,...