LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Today's Exmouth lifeboat crew is very much a family affair - six members of two families make up nearly a quarter of the entire crew.
Among the 25 strong crew is Coxswain Keith Graham with his two sons and the three...
Category: Articles
Edward VII, of Grimsby
Thurso.
At ten at night, on the 2nd February, a message was received that a vessel had gone ashore on Brims Ness, six miles from Thurso, the scene of many wrecks. She was found later to be the trawler Edward VII., of...
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 21st June, 1928.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Passed a special Vote of Thanks to H.R.H.
PRINCE GEORGE for graciously visiting the Orkney Islands in order to perform...
Category: Committee
Wreck on the Brisson Rocks, Cornwall
It was stated in our first Number that a part of the plan of this Journal would be to place on record deeds of gallantry in saving life from shipwreck, as an example and en- couragement to others " to go and do like- wise;" and...
Category: Articles
The F.V. Harvester II
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 12.10 p.m. on 2ist July, 1966, a vessel off Broadsea was seen firing rockets and appeared to be on fire. The life-boat The Duchess of Kent was launched at 12.20 in a gentle north-westerly wind and a choppy sea...
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
Cambridge, I May 1852.
SIR,—In the narrative of the lamentable wreck of the New Commercial at the Bris- sons, Cornwall, given in the April number of the Life-Boat Journal, it is stated by mis- take that I am the " only...
Category: Articles
Selsey: Coxswain Michael J Grant (R) Awarded the Silver Medal for the Service to the Panamanian Cargo Vessel Cape Coast on January 10 and the Thanks of the Insti
Selsey: Coxswain Michael J. Grant (r.), awarded the silver medal for the service to the Panamanian cargo vessel Cape Coast on January 10 and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the service to the fishing vessel New Venture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Grane Fors
DOCTOR TAKEN TO PANAMANIAN STEAMER Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.10 on the evening of the 17th May, 1963, the coxswain superintendent was informed that the s.s. GraneForsof Panama, anchored off Spurn, had a sick man on board who needed medical...
An Irish Ship
Harbour accident THE LIFEBOAT CALL-OUT paging signal alerted Second Coxswain Christopher Tett of Weymouth on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 31. 1986. He drove straight to the lifeboathouse, and as he made his way inside he noticed...
Prince Charles Visits Rock
Prince Charles shakes hands and has a chat with Rock lifeboat crew members. Photo: John Beckett Photography. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs