LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Today's lifeboatmen Coxswain Michael Grant of Selsey joined the crew in 1960 and served as second coxswain from 1972 to 1978, becoming the station's full-time coxswain on 1 November 1978.
He was awarded the Thanks...
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Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
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The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago
Gold Medallion Awarded for a Service on the Northumbrian Coast.
" Newton-by-the-Sea, " Tuesday, 2nd December, 1828.
" SIR,—It is with the deepest regret I have to communicate to you the...
Category: Correspondence
Benefactors: "Not of An Age, But for All Time." Henry Greathead. [Born 1757. Died 1813]
IT is our national boast that Britannia rules the waves, and so it was only befitting that the honour of, inventing the Life-boat should fall to the lot of a Briton. Whether or not Henry Greathead was that particular Briton has been a matter...
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The S.S. Baron Elibank
Dover, Kent.—-At 9.35 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1948, the Sand- gate coastguard reported information from the s.s. Baron Elibank that two men had been seen in a rowing boat eight miles east by south of Dover, and the motor...
Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
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My Lady
POLISH TRAWLERS GUIDED TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
On the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht My Lady of Hartlepool, which had a crew of five, grounded on a sandbank just inside the entrance to...
New Members of Committee of Management
Major Bertram Bell, Mr. Raymond Cory, Mr. John Russell, and Mr. Nigel Varrington Smyth, O.B.E., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Major Bell, who lives in Fota Island (Co. Cork),...
Category: Committee
Fund Raisers
The Grace Darling appeal Arabella and Martha Dancy, pupils at Putney High School, Lytton House, help to organise and took part in a Great Teddy Bear Contest in order to raise money for the appeal. The school hall was filled with 200 teddy...
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