LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.
The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Dinghy capsize A LIFEBOATMAN, John Strachan, who is skipper of a ferry running from Largs Pier to Cumbrae, and Matthew Ramsay and Donald McMillan, skippers of fishing vessels Sea Nymph and Mhari Bhan, who were mooring their boats at Largs...
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Atlantic 75 B-713 OEM Stone I Aisisting Lifeboat Trent class ON-1211 Geoige and Ivy Swanson The Crew gfgnza Medal Helmsman David Parry for his 'outstanding courage.
seamanship and...
Category: Services
Herbert Leigh on Trials In the Mersey After Her Refit at Ocean Fleets Yard Birkenhead
Herbert Leigh on trials in the Mersey after her refit at Ocean Fleets yard, Birkenhead.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Alive
PAGe tItLe RescUe FIVe ALIVe two miles from land, a group of kayakers was at the mercy of gale force offshore winds. How could they summon help and how long could they stay afloat? mairéad Dwane reports tHe DetAIL insHORe LiFeBOat B-789...
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Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (,'fliejigurei refer to the numbers nf the Life~bo&tt detailed an the ten preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 134, Cyclist Life-boat Fund, 23. Homan, E. Esq., 118. Popham, Mrs., the laM, 224....
Category: Donations
Death of a Gold Medallist
BY the death on 4th August last of Captain T. Fitzgibbon McCombie, M.B.E., the honorary representative in Dublin of the Royal Humane Society, passed away, at the age of 82, a man who, though he was not a life-boatman, had the rare...
Category: Obituaries
The Sailing Ketch West Winds
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At twelve noon on the 23rd of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that the auxiliary sailing ketch West Winds, which had left Tenby bound for Gloucester, had not moved her position for several hours, and that her...
The Barges Mary Ann and Edith
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 2nd March the Coxswain received a telegram from Shoebury that a bargehad foundered. As a whole southerly gale was blowing, and a rough sea running, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 proceeded to her...