LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Presentations for Gallantry
The Duchess of Kent and the Weymouth Coxswain and Motor Mechanic. On the left of the photograph is the Prime Minister, Behind the Duchess is Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brakesea
At 3.45 A.M.
on the llth December, while a whole south-westerly gale was raging, inform- ation was received from the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress about seven miles to the south- eastward of...
Coxswain Sam May, of Southwold
Coxswain Sam May, of South wold.
SAMUEL C. MAY, at one time Coxswain of the Southwold Life-boat, died on 18th. May last after a long illness. He was sixty-three years old, and was appointed Second Coxswain in 1891, seven...
Category: Obituaries
Annie
CHAPEL, LINCOLNSHIRE.—A vessel was observed with two jibs set and signals of distress flying in her main rigging, about a mile from the shore, during a very strong breeze from the S. by E. and a heavy sea, at 9 A.M. on the 16th November. The...
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Ladies' Guild
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held their annual lifeboat ball at the Ocean Room, Gorleston-on-Sea. Among the 530 guests were Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI, accompanied by his wife Anne, together with the Mayor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St.Stephen's Day swim
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St Stephen's Day swim. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain John Gill
COXSWAIN JOHN GILL, of Galway Bay, who served as bowman from 1932 to 1933, second coxswain from 1933 to 1938 and coxswain from 1938 to 1943, was awarded the bronze medal in 1938 for the rescue of eleven men when the steam trawler Nogi went...
Category: Obituaries
Channel Islands Welcome:
Channel Islands welcome: ,v/ Peter Port lifeboat crew were presented to Princess Anne bv the chairman of the branch. Guv Blampied (centre), when she visited Guernsey in May.
She is seen here talking to Crew Member Michael... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emergency Evacuation
Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.
A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...
Category: Articles
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
SUMMER 2018 RESULTS
Congratulations to Miss A Prince from Essex who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mr R Pollard, North Humberside<...
Category: Articles