LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Belgian Fishing Vessel
Never off duty The crew of Lytham St Annes were on passage from Ramsey on the Isle of Man on 1 February, collecting the relief Mersey class lifeboat Margaret Jean, when they intercepted a telephone conversation between the Coastguard and a...
Winning Journalist
Mr. Michael Tosh has become the first man to receive the Institution's award for the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat. His report appeared in the Dundee Courier and Advertiser on nth November, 1964. In it he...
Category: Awards
Life-boats Stations Put Out of Action
Two life-boat stations were temporarily put out of action.
The Tynemouth boat-house, and part of the slipway, were destroyed by the same bomb which destroyed the life-boat. It was six months before the station could be...
Category: Articles
Tamworth Ladies' Guild Fund Raising Dinners
Around 180 people packed a Dray ton Manor dining room for one of the Tamworth ladies' guild fund raising dinners. Guest speaker was Derek Scott, retired coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, who treated the guests to a selection of humorous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Neptunia
Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.
The Thurso life-boat was also...
Longest Winter Service
THE Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica), Ltd., has once again awarded a case of rum to the life-boat crew which carried out the longest service during the winter months of 1955-56. The award has gone to the crew of the Arklow...
Category: Awards
Royal Humane Society Award
On 7th August, 1968, when the Ramsey, Isle of Man, life-boat Thomas Corbett was being launched for publicity purposes the tractor driver, Mr. W.
Collister, who was wearing his life-saving suit, was swept off the tractor...
Category: Awards
Janet Brown Pulls Out Each Winning Ticket
Fourteenth RNLI national lottery draw: as Janet Brown pulls out each winning ticket Joyce Pearce of the Appeals Department makes an immediate record of name and number.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — 18th February. Three people had been surrounded by the tide, but were rescued by a rowing boat.—Rewards, £18 19s. 6d..
A Naval Patrol Vessel (1)
AUGUST 2ND. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A naval patrol vessel had been bombed by enemy aircraft, but her crew were rescued by another vessel.- Rewards, £17 13s. 6d..