LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launches of Life-boats and Lives Rescued
Life-boats were launched to ships in distress 3,760 times. Of these launches 2,212 were to ships in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war. Life-boats rescued 6,376 lives..
Category: Services
David Tate
David Tate, honorary treasurer of St Albans & District branch from 1966 to 1986. He then became vice chairman and subsequently vice president of the branch. Mr Tate was awarded a silver badge in 1987..
Category: Obituaries
Ann of Lonan
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
1975: (Left) End of the Afternoon Tea In the Royal Festival Hall Foyer from Workington Bronze Medallist Coxswain Albert Brown and His Wife Margaret With Captain
. . . 1975: (left) end of the afternoon, tea in the Royal Festival Hall foyer. From Workington, bronze medallist Coxswain Albert Brown and his wife Margaret with Captain David Thomas (I.), station honorary secretary.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duchess and the Flamborough Motor Mechanic
(See page 323). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mount Ida and a Lowestoft Drifter
Cromer, Norfolk.—9th October, 1939.
After rescuing the crew of twenty-nine of the Greek steamer Mount Ida, the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey went to the help of a Lowestoft drifter, but found that her crew had been...