LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Years and Nine Months of War
In the four years and nine months of war our life-boats have rescued 5661 lives, and have won 204 medals for gallantry..
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Lizard-Cadgwith: 52' Burnett Lifeboat the Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No 33) on Exercise With An Rnas Culdrose Wessex Mk I Helicopter Off the Lizard Two of the Rn
Lizard-Cadgwith: 52' Burnett lifeboat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) on exercise with an RNAS Culdrose Wessex Mk I helicopter off the Lizard. Two of the RN aircrew launched with the lifeboat; three lifeboatmen spent a short... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies: A Correction
AN article was published in the last number of The Life-boat (Autumn, 1950) on the great danger of rubber dinghies, and a list was given of life-boats launched to their help in the summer of 1950. There were ten launches and eighteen lives...
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Jubilee of the Walton and Frinton Station
THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
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Helen
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.45 P.M.
on the 4th July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties near Bembridge Ledge. She cleared it, but watch was kept on her, and it was seen that she could not be...
A Box of Arbroath Smokeys for Hrh the Duke of Kent
A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF
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Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To SIDNEY H. B. PAGE, on his retirement, after serving for 21J years as coxswain, G months as second coxswain and 1 year as bowman of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement...
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The Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives (1)
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
The Smaller of the Two Norwegian Boats Ragni Berg Stood By a Dutch Yacht In Trouble Off Esbjerg on Her Passage from Norway Photograph By Courtesy of Dag Pike
The smaller of the two Norwegian boats, Ragni Berg, stood by a Dutch yacht in trouble off Esbjerg on her passage from Norway. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
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The James H. Price, of Savannah
AUGUST 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 in the evening, a steamer was seen to be in danger of running ashore and the life-boat coxswain put out in a shore boat to investigate.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the...