LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Champion, of Liverpool
At day- light on the 20th December a vessel, which proved to be the schooner Champion, of Liverpool, timber laden, was observed off the Scarweather Sands, with mainmast gone and signals of distress flying, it blowing a strong gale from N. W....
French Honour for a Coxswain
ON the 26th of November, 1948, at the Guildhall, St. Ives, Cornwall, the French consul at Southampton presented to Mr. William Peters, former coxswain of the St. Ives life-boat, the Brevet de Chevalier de 1'Ordre du Merite. The ...
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Scottish Fisheries Museum Anstruther:
Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther: at a ceremony on February 17 five plaques commemorating the Scottish lifeboatmen from Fraserburgh, Arbroath, Broughty Ferry and Longhope who have lost their lives at sea since the end of World War II... - View image in PDF
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From a Great Height
On a cool Sunday morning last September, RNLI North East region held its sponsored abseil from Number Bridge with some 200 supporters participating, including 100 members and friends from the 1 st Heckmondwike Scout group in West... - View image in PDF
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Sceptre
MAY 8TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched at 10 A.M. to the help of the motor fishing boat Sceptre, of Sunderland, which was aground on the rocks to the south side of the harbour. The sea was smooth....
Zestoria
On the 27th November, at 9 P.M., signals were shown by a vessel in Lowestoft North Roads. The No. 1 Life-boat proceeded out in tow of a steam-tug, and brought ashore the crew of 5 men from the schooner Zestoria, of Colchester, which vessel...
Fanny
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—A small sloop, which proved to be the Fanny, of Fishguard, was observed at 1 P.M. on the 30th September to be showing a signal of distress while at anchor, about a mileto the N.W. of Dinas Head. The -wind •was blowing...
Garson
The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was also launched at 1 A.M. on the 18th November in reply to large flares which, bad been observed in the direction, of the North Scroby Sand, when the barge Qm-son, of Wisbeaeli, was discovered riding at...
Hope
LOWESTOFT.—On the 8th October, at about noon, signals of distress were shown by a vessel outside the Holm Sand. A moderate gale from the N. was blowing at the time. The No. 1 Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll, was launched, and on getting alongside...