LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newmarket Charity Race Day
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun...
Category: Articles
Annual Awards 1979
ANNUAL AWARDS 1979 The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman during 1979 has been made to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan for the rescue of the crew of four of the Panamanian cargo vessel Revi in a...
Category: Awards
Wells the Crew and Those Who Back Them Up Ashore
Portrait of a lifeboat station WELLS the crew and those who back them up ashore by Campbell MacCallum 1 Coxswain David Cox 2 Second Coxswain Anthony Jordan 3 Offshore lifeboat crew 4 Lt David Case RNVR, station honorary secretary 5 Mrs David... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Raf Brawdy 202 Squadron Challenge Trophy
There was a definite air of inter-rescue services co-operation when Tenby lifeboat crew won the RAF Brawdy 202 Squadron challenge trophy in a darts competition between Pembrokeshire rescue organisations. The £128.31 raised in the raffle... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Berthe Marie
Shortly before noon on the 7th December the coastguard reported that a schooner, anchored about three quarters of a mile from the shore, had parted one of her cables and was driving towards the land. The crew of the Life-boat Eichard and...
Contents
/ 1 . Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 147 International Lifeboat Conference, by Patrick Howarth 148 XLVT Summary of Accounts for 1978 149 468 Lifeboat Services 150 Lifeboats of the World: Part II—Sea rescue outside Europe, by...
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Cassibelaunus, of North Shields
On the 26th November a ship's boat crowded with people was descried from this station scudding before a westerly gale. The Manchester Branch Life-boat William Woodcock was promptly launched, and managed to intercept the boat as she was...
Contrast
SCARBOROUGH.—The fishing smack Contrast, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour, OH the morning of the 21st March, during a strong gale of wind from the N.N.E., was struck by very heavy seas, which washed her fishing gear adrift, and...
Fishing Cobles
The cobles were off fishing on the 2nd April in a E.N.E. breeze when the sea commenced to grow and rendered their return very dangerous. In the absence of the coxswain with the fishermen, the signal- man of the Life-boat James Oowland very...
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven, who died on 5th February, 1938, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Newhaven station in 1936. He had then been its honorary secretary for thirty-five years. Mr. Lines was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries