LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Aud Schou
The Humber, Yorkshire.—In the morning of the 12th November the life-boat watchman saw a small vessel flying a signal, and drifting slowly towards the Binks Sands. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a nasty sea. The motor life-boat City...
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
Category: Articles
The Mail Steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow
Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morning of the llth March the mail steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Portaskaig for West Loch Tarbert. She had mail and twenty-two persons on board. When she was about eight miles east of Macarthur's Head...
Pan Gothia
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1958, the Lade coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been lost overboard from the tanker Pan Gothia of Kungsbacka, Sweden, seven and a half miles south-west...
Hoku Paa
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 1.6 p.m.
on 6th December, 1969, the coastguard told the coxswain of the lifeboat that a catamaran appeared to be adrift and in difficulties north of Skerries. Eventually the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil...
Teesmouth's Tyne Class Phil Mead
Teesmouth'sTyne class Phil Mead (seen here in the 1990s) has been withdrawn after 21 years' s. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Ship Ellie Park
MARCH 2lST. - GIRVAN. AYRSHIRE.
At 9.45 P.M. the police reported that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Turnberry Lighthouse and was showing flares.
The weather was calm but there was a dense fog...
Surfboards
Surfer saved by D class in appal l|n g conditionsTramore's D class inflatable saved a surfer on 6 June lastyear in conditions which tested both the lifeboat and her crew to the limit.
In conditions which turned out to...
Past Times
Man overboard The dangers of the sea were tragically demonstrated on 18 March 2006 when David Clear was washed off his yacht, Past Times, off St Aldhelm's Head near Swanage, Dorset. His inexperienced crew member made a Mayday call but...