LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — llth February. A man fell off a breakwater, and was picked up by the life-boat, but although artificial respiration was applied at once, he could not be revived.
—Rewards, £8...
Michael Lenegham BEM
Michael Lenegham BEM, coxswain of Newcastle, Co. Down lifeboat for 26 years and a lifeboatman for more than 40 years. He served as second coxwain from 1950 until 1961 before taking over as coxwain, having first joined the crew in 1946, aged...
Category: Obituaries
Hands Up:
Hands up: Keith Cook, an RNLI life governor, was at Aldeburgh lifeboat station last year when he came across this peculiar sight (left). Is it a particularly poignant appeal for funds or simply a case of all hands to the rescue?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Doctor Dick Rutherfurd
Doctor Dick Rutherfurd MB, vice chairman of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station branch. Dr Rutherfurd had been involved with the station since 1956, serving as honorary secretary, honorary medical adviser and committee member. He was awarded a...
Category: Obituaries
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Category: Advertisement
Success
On the 24th November, the/Life-boat and steam-tug again went out, during a strong E.N.E. gale and a tremendous sea, at about 10.45 P.M., and brought into Ramsgate harbour the fishing - vessel Success, which had just been brought to anchor,...
Fishing Cobles (6)
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The Life-boat Jonathan Stott was launched at 10 A.M.
on the 29th April, and stood by the cobles which were returning home, having been overtaken while out fishing by a rough sea and a thick...
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The Humber, Yorkshire, and Skegness, Lincolnshire. — 31st December, 1937.
Flares had been seen from the Inner Dowsing Light-vessel, but a search revealed no sign of any vessel in need of help.—Rewards : The Humber,...
"A Sacred Duty"
H.R.H. The Princess Marie Louise, presiding at a meeting in London, said: "I dislike the word charity, as it sounds so patronising. It is both a privilege and a sacred duty to support the Life-boat Service.".
Category: Articles
Arantzaza-Mendi
Cloughey, Co. Down.—On the 17th June, 1939, a salvage party, eleven in number, was rescued from the Spanish steamer Arantzaza-Mendi which had gone ashore on the 9th May.—Rewards, silver and bronze medals and monetary awards amounting to...