LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Frederick James Palmer
Coxswain Frederick James Palmer, who joined the Weymouth lifeboat crew in 1926, serving as second coxswain from 1931 to 1940, and as coxswain from 1946 to 1962. He was awarded the bronze medal in 1948 and the silver medal in 1949..
Category: Obituaries
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island. He joined the lifeboat crew in August 1974 having previously been connected with the Hayling Island Sea Rescue and Research Organisation. Frank was awarded a chairman's letter in 1978, a bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Paton,
March 1988 James Paton, coxswain of Montrose lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1980. He joined the crew in 1946 and was bowman from 1946 to 1953, becoming second coxswain in 1953 until his appointment as coxswain. In 1972 he was...
Category: Obituaries
Edward R Coker,
March Edward R Coker, president of Didsbury branch. Mr Coker was a founder member of the branch in 1964 and held office as chairman until 1967 and president from 1967 until his death. He was awarded the silver badge in 1983 and the gold...
Category: Obituaries
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.Hunting Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI.
Prices 8in by Sin - £13.00, 10in...
Category: Articles
Royal Bank of Scotland
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Category: Advertisement
A Boat
Seasick baby Donaghadee lifeboat's open day was interrupted this summer by an unusual emergency. The lifeboat took a paramedic and a doctor to assist a baby who was suffering from severe seasickness. The mother and baby were taken tack...
A Vessel (6)
OCT. 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A message had been received that a vessel had been torpedoed, and the explosions had been heard, but nothing could be found, and it was assumed that the wrecked vessel’s crew had been...
Lowestoft
LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK On the 30th September, 1943, the Lowestoft life-boat rescued ten of the crew of H.M. Minesweeper 106.
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
A British Aeroplane (2)
MAY 13TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
A British aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but her crew of two were rescued by the lifeboat coxswain, who was out in his fishing boat at the time. - Rewards, £3 15s. (See Dunbar,...