LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naval Motor Launch No.109
OCTOBER 30TH. -THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A naval motor launch, No. 109, had struck a mine and had sunk. Six survivors had been picked up by another launch ; and nothing could be found of the others.- Permanent paid crew....
An Aeroplane (180)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
An aeroplane had come down off Cliff End Point, a mile from the shore, but the airmen got to land in their rubber boats. - Rewards, £15..
Launches of Life-boats and Lives Rescued
Life-boats were launched to ships in distress 3,760 times. Of these launches 2,212 were to ships in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war. Life-boats rescued 6,376 lives..
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (172)
NOVEMBER 8TH . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea thirty-seven miles in a N.E. direction from Kinnaird Head, but nothing was found. The life-boat was out for ten and a half hours. - Rewards, £23...
Special Award to District Inspector
To Commander EDWARD D. DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Northern District, in recognition of his high sense of devotion to duty when taking Life-boats to their Stations under arduous conditions, and especially the...
Category: Awards
An Aeroplane (32)
MARCH 11TH. - ARBROATH, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. An R.N.A.S. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except two wheels, one by the Arbroath life-boat and one by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards : Arbroath, £16...
Lifeboat People
Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Timothy Hugh Bevan, chairman, Barclays Bank PLC. Sir Timothy has been honorary treasurer of Balcombe and Staplefield branch since 1964 and was awarded the...
Category: Articles
Diana
YACHT LEAKING At 5.55 a.m. on I5th November, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht with her engine broken down was in need of assistance and that a pilot cutter was standing by. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was...
H Leverton & Co Ltd
CATERPILLAR DIESEL ENGINES CHOSEN BY THE R.N.LI. AND DISCRIMINATING USERS EVERYWHERE Caterpillar-built marine diesels have proved their reliability and operating economy all over the world. Now, for the most critical applications and...
Category: Advertisement
Epsom and Ewell Rnli Branch
Geoffrey Garrick, regional organiser for south London (I) receives a cheque for £710 from Cyril Mulchings, chairman of Epsom and Ewell swimming club, and hands over an RNLl plaque in return. The link between the boys and girls of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs