LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bravest Deeds of 1951
THE Maud Smith reward, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Alfred R. Wilson, of Margate, for going on board the yacht Girlanda in the darkness of the...
Category: Awards
Out to the Rescue
The Scarborough Motor Life-boat on 24th January, 1937, on her way to stand by fishing-boats. - View image in PDF
(See page 281). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wrecked at the Lizard
The Clan Malcolm, of Glasgow, a 6000-ton steamer with a crew of 75, which went ashore in a dense fog. (See page 568.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meet The Team
Meet the team Lifeboat crew, shore helpers, station officials and fundraising volunteers stand proudly with their new Tamar class all-weather lifeboat, boathouse and slipway at Tenby in Pembrokeshire Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RIDING TO THE RESCUE
‘You bet!’ That’s what a group of local lads said when challenged to undertake a gruelling bike ride from Arbroath to Dobbies at Ethiebeaton Park – and back – late last summer. Their combined pedal-power raised a whopping £563, which...
Category: Articles
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
" Thousands of women, in every part, of the United Kingdom, rich or poor, high and, low, have shown that they are moved by the same spirit of mercy and helpfulness as actuated Grace Darling. In their own way, they have rendered...
Category: Articles
The Prince Pins the Gold Medal on Coxswain John Howells
(Mr. George F, Shee, the Secretary of the Institution, is standing] behind the Prince.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Families. The Cables of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
Category: Articles