LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths.
MARCH 1988: Mr Tom Brown, honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station from 1974 until his retirement in 1979.
MAY 1988: Mrs Dorothy Smith, first...
Category: Obituaries
Dawn, of Grimsby
A similar service was performed by this boat on the 18th August, when the fishing smack Dawn of Grimsby, which had gone ashore in a bad sea, but fine weather, was also got afloat by having assistance, which, from the heavy surf, could not...
A Coble
2nd October. As a precautionary measure the life-boat put out to a coble which had been seen making the harbour in a strong wind and rough sea, but the coble got in safely.—Rewards, £22 7,?..
A Gallant Young Corporal
THE Institution has sent a framed letter of thanks and £1 to Corporal David Aitken, a 15-year-old member of the Glasgow Jewish Lads' Brigade Cadets, for bravely helping to save a woman who fell into the Tweed last...
Category: Articles
A K.L.M. Constellation Aircraft (1)
On the 14th-15th of August, 1958, the Fenit and Galway Bay life-boats carried out a long and unsuccessful search for survivors of a K.L.M.
Constellation aircraft, which had crashed into the sea. An account of their search...
Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd
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Built to the Royal National Life-boat Institution's strict specification Mermaid...
Category: Advertisement
Racal-Marine
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Category: Advertisement
Ho, Ho, Ho...
Ho, ho, ho...
...and a bottle of rum! Tom Greer of Watson's Rum presents £1,500 to area organiser Colin Lawson in the presence of the Anstruther crew in April. The money was collected from rum bottles strategically... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roses to Remember
One hundred and twenty-five years to the day,Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk saw a moving tribute to 11 lifeboatmen who risked, and lost, their lives to save others in the Eliza Adams tragedy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat (4)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. Two boys in a rowing boat had been reported missing in a thick fog, but the boat was found among the rocks, the boys apparently having left her there and gone home. - Rewards, £8...