LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 13TH . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. An airman baled out from a Lysander aeroplane, but landed on shore.

- Paid permanent crew..

MARCH 12TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it had crashed on land.

- Rewards, £14 15s.

25th Octo- ber. A yacht had been reported to be in distress, but as a steamer was standing by and a tug was on its way, the life-boat was recalled shortly after leaving.—Rewards, £7 15*. 6d..

Chris Hoffman of McMurdo Marine (left) handed over a cheque for over £3,000 to RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, at the London Boat Show 2000.

The money was raised in support of the RNLI's 175th anniversary from... - View image in PDF

DECEMBER 16TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

The Shipwash Light-vessel had been bombed and machine-gunned by German aeroplanes and one of the crew had been wounded, but an R.A.F. speed boat arrived before the life-boat. - Rewards,...

On the 20th of December, 1957, the Kilmore, Co. Wexford, life-boat res- cued the crew of ten of the French fishing vessel Augusta Mariste. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 3, Coxswain Mark Bates was awarded the...

Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1947 when he became coxswain, a position he held until the station closed in...

Coxswain Stephen Clayson, who died in July, 1937, at the age of eighty-four, had a distinguished career. He was bowman of the Margate life-boat for over seven years and coxswain for over twenty years. During that time the life-boats rescued...