LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts for the "Guide of Dunkirk"
The Durban Rangers and Guides sent to the crew of the Cadgwith lifeboat "Guide of Dunkirk" a big Christmas parcel with puddings, chocolate, sweets, preserves, dried fruits, soap, shaving brushes, razor blades, tooth-brushes,...
Category: Articles
Bbc Television Appeal: Raymond Baxter Chairman
BBC Television Appeal: Raymond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee and a member of the Committee of Management, aboard Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Arun lifeboat and surrounded by the filming and recording team during the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stuart Roberts Helmsman of Porthcawl Inshore Lifeboat,
Stuart Roberts helmsman of Porthcawl inshore lifeboat, first joined the crew in July 1980.
Stuart, who is a local Police officer, was awarded the Institution's Silver Medal for o u t s t a n d i n g bravery when the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Meeting of the General Council of the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
The Lady Florence Pery (Hon. Secretary of the Guild), the Duchess of Sutherland (President of the Guild), the Prince of Wales (President of the Institution), the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (Patron of the Guild).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
To the Help of Two Rafts
Coxswain J. McLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire has won the bronze medal for gallantry in rescuing two exhausted men from a ship's raft when it was within two hundred yards of the rocks in a heavy sea. The life-boat then went to another...
Category: Articles
There Are Many Facets to the Running of a Nation-Wide Lifeboat Service and Transport Is a Vital If Usually Inconspicuous Aspect
There are many facets to the running of a nation-wide lifeboat service, and transport is a vital, if usually inconspicuous, aspect.
The latest addition to the RNLI's road fleet is this 17 ton Mercedes 1726, a 260hp, V8... - View image in PDF
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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
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 2.1 p.m. on i3th August, 1966, information was received that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht in the Needles channel. At 2.10 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched. The tide was flooding....
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (4)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. —• At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th of March, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer reported seeing wreckage eleven miles east-south-east of Gourdon, believed to be of the S.S.
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Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1958 has been won by Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St. Ives for the rescue of a party who were marooned in a cave on the 9th of August, 1958. A...
Category: Awards