LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rapid response MOTOR MECHANIC GRAHAM WALKER of Wells lifeboat station was on duty in the boathouse on the morning of Sunday June 29, 1986, when he noticed a man and young woman cut off by the flooding tide on Bob Halls...
Honours for RNLI people
RNLI Clinical Operations Manager Paul Savage, who developed a pioneering casualty care course for lifesavers, was one of four of our people recognised in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
Paul (pictured above) – who...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: NOVEMBER 1992 Captain J.F. Kersley, station honorary secretary of Queensferry lifeboat from 1967 to 1992. He was awarded a Gold badge in 1988.
Mrs Edith Townend, founder...
Category: Obituaries
Augustine Louise
On the 23rd February the Holy Island No. 1 Life-boat, the Grace Darling, assisted by a steam-tug, saved theFrench schooner Augustine Louise, \ which had grounded on the rocks near that place..
Fishing Boats (4)
On the morning of the 26th March these two Life-boats were~ again engaged on similar service, fourteen fishing-boats being in danger off Gourdon, and four off Johnshaven..
The Gorleston Motor Life-Boat, "John & Mary Meiklam of Gladswood," Returning to Harbour After Saving the S.S. "Fox," of Hull, and Her Crew of Six on 27th November, 1924
The Gorleston Motor Life-Boat "John & Mary Meiklam of Gladswood" Returning To Harbour After Saving The SS "Fox" of Hull and Her Crew of Six On 27Th November 1924. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Whitby No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat on the Flooded Road Below Ruswarp Vicarage on Her Way to the Rescue of Two Women About Half a Mile Upstream
The Whitby No 2 Pulling And'sailing Life-Boat on the Flooded Road Below Ruswarp Vicarage On Her Way To The Rescue of Two Women About Half A Mile Upstream. - View image in PDF
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A Disabled Schooner
The Cenesta, of Harwich, on 3rd September, with ber sails blown away, in tow of a tug, with the Plymouth Motor Life-boat escorting her.. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. East Indian
On 7th October a wireless message was received from the s.s. East Indian, of Detroit, U.S.A., that she was putting into Stornoway, as one of her crew had been severely injured. When she arrived, shortly before four on the morning of the 8th,...
H.R.H. The Duchess of York on Board the Arbroath Motor Life-Boat
With her are the Duke of Montrose, the Lady Helen Graham (Lady-in-Waiting), Mr. Robert L. Mudie, and Commander Drury, Chief Inspector of Life-boat*.. - View image in PDF
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