LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yves Marie Amil
A ^ • Aflame from stem to stern' .
In the early hours of the morning Coxswain Malcolm Gray's pager beeped loudly. As he sat up in ^ bed he heard the clock strike four. Momentarily he wondered what on earth was going...
Esmeralda
— At about 8.30 AM. on the 7th July the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress flying from a ketch on the east side of Fishguard Bay, near the-Needles Rock. There was a fresh N.N.W. breeze and heavy ground sea at the time....
Fargo
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.50 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, distress flares were seen coming from the auxiliary yacht Fargo off the West Holm buoy. At 6.3 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded in a westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide...
Success (1)
At 9.20 p.m. on loth May, 1967, a red flare was reported to have been seen half a mile off Pakefield rifle range. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.30 in a fresh easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Leon Laura, of Lowestoft
At 7.25 p.m. on fth June, 1966, a vessel was seen flying a distress signal and burning red flares four miles east of the lookout. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick left her moorings at 7.40 in a gentle westerly wind and a slight...
Awards to Life-Boat Workers
MR. R. H. MAHONY, of Ballycotton, CAPTAIN G. B. PIGGOTT, of Barmouth, and MR. S. VALENTINE, of Girvan, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an honorary worker. This is...
Category: Awards
(Above) the Lerwick Crew
/Above) The ierwick crew left to right: Ian ieask. crew member; Michael Grant, crew member; Brian Laurenson, Emergency Mechanic; Peter Thomson. Emergency Mechanic; Richie Simpson, 2nd coxswain and Hewitt Clark, coxswain/mechanic.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Katina Bulgaris
The Humber, Yorkshire.—8th February, 1939. The- Greek steamer Katina Bulgaris, of Andros, had collided with the American steamer Meanticut and sank, but the Meanticut rescued her crew.—Permanent paid crew: Rewards, £l Os. 3d..
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK (MIDDLESEX).
—Annual Meeting on llth April.
Speakers : The Mayor and the District Organizing Secretary....
Category: Branches
Old Age and the Life-Boat Service
Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.
An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...
Category: Articles