LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane and A Fishing Boat
JULY 27TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 4.6 in the afternoon the Selsey coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the sea a mile south of Bognor. There was a light northwest breeze and the sea was smooth. At 4.25 the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific...
Mrs Primrose Reidford,
Mrs Primrose Reidford, founder member of Ha warden branch in 1952. She held the office of president from 1980 to 1992 and was awarded a Silver badge in 1966, a gold badge in 1983 and a bar to the gold badge in 1992. (Mrs Reidf ord had also...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Boats (1)
FEBRUARY 10TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
Four Staithes fishing boats were caught by a northerly gale, with a very rough sea, while out fishing, and the motor life-boat Robert Patton - The Always Ready was launched at 1.10 P.M....
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Wells, Norfolk.—26th November, 1938.
A vessel had been reported in distress off the Lynn Well Light-vessel, but nothing could be found. She may have been a derelict drifter from which theSkegness life-boat had rescued the...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire.—23rd October, 1939. The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and has last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M.
Two...
Emerald Isle
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th March, at about 6.80 P.M., the trawler, Emerald Isle, of Whitehaven, which had been beating about in the bay for about three hours, evidently waiting for water, suddenly made for the harbour mouth, and...
Posthumous Awards
Early this year at a private ceremony held at Longhope, Orkney, posthumous awards for gallantry were presented by The Duke of Atholl, Convenor of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal...
Category: Awards
Lifesavers honored
Three lifeboat volunteers from Port Isaac, Cornwall (pictured, above), will be awarded RNLI Medals for Gallantry, after saving a man’s life on 8 April.
Helm Damien Bolton will receive the Silver Medal, while Crew Members...
Category: Articles
Instead of Flowers
CAPTAIN S. E. FOSTER, R.N., who for several years was honorary secretary of the Ryde, Isle of Wight, station, died last August. Knowing his interest in the life-boat service his family, in the announcement of his death, asked that gifts...
Category: Donations
A French Schooner Goeland
On the 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was in distress in a strong gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat Prince David rescued the crew of six.—Rewards, silver medal, bronze medals, thanks of the...