LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
November (1)
danger they put out. They did not reach and rescue the boys until they were two miles out and their boat half full of water. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 2.30 in the afternoon of...
Category: Services
Visit of the Deputy-Chairman and Sir Gerard Noel to St. Abbs, Dunbar and Skateraw
THE management and the practical working of a great national service like that of the Life-boat demand the constant attention of the technical officers of the Institution ; and these, under the direction of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats,...
Category: Articles
Prize Winners Mr And Mrs Smith Meet Coxswain Peter Huxtable And His Team At Shoreham Harbour
Prize winners Mr and Mrs Smith meet Coxswain Peter Huxtable and his team at Shoreham Harbour Photo: John Periam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...
The American Tug TID 76, and The Minca and Clover Leaf
AUGUST 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.45 at night. the Deal coastguard reported that a tug, with a barge in tow, was about four miles to the south-east of the South Goodwin No. 2 Buoy. A north-west gale was blowing, with blinding rain and a very...
End of season drama
It was approaching the last hour of duty for lifeguards at Pendine, Carmarthenshire, but they wouldn't be hanging up their wetsuits for the year just yet.
On 5 September 2010 John O’Boyle, James Shuttleworth and Matt...
Category: Articles
Awards
Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
Category: Awards
The Naval Reserve, As It Ought to Be, and As It Is
" WHAT is the Naval Reserve?" This is a question which was very frequently asked during the early part of the month of May of the present year; and, certainly, until the daily papers undertook the task of en- lightenment, the...
Category: Articles
Saga
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Category: Advertisement
Robert Burgon, Ex-Coxswain at Berwick-on-Tweed
Robert Burgon, at one time Coxswain of the Berwick-on-Tweed Station, was drowned, on the morning of 24th March, with two other men in a motor fishingboat which was swamped by heavy seas and sank when crossing the bar on their way home. Born...
Category: Obituaries