LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Warrant Officer T. J. Hudson MBE is shown presenting a cheque for £200 to the President of Plymouth lifeboat station, Vice Admiral Sir Robert Gerken.

The money was raised by WO Hudson's friends and mess mates who... - View image in PDF

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 in the morning of the 17th of November, 1948, the pier head coastguard reported that the S.S. Nordic Queen was ap- proaching Southend and wanted to land ten survivors whom she had picked up from the Dutch...

THE unfortunate accident which occurred to the Calais mail-packet Prince Frederick William, in February last, will be fresh in the memory of many of our readers, when the upsetting of one of the Calais life-boats, which had proceeded to the...

Lerwick, Shetlands. At 8.6 on the evening of the llth of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen south-east of Bressay Lighthouse in the direction of the Ord. A south-by-east gale was...

THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall,- Westminster, on the 27th of June, 1949, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...

Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...

Three saved during Southland's worst weather in a decade and a half \ Southend lifeboat Helmsman John Foster has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery with Crew Members Michael Whistler and Ian Rees receiving the Thanks on...

NORTH SUNDEHLAND.— At 2 P.M. on the 1st January 1901 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and brought ashore the Crew of four men of the ketch Pallas, of Jersey, which had stranded on the Longstone rock, where she became a total...