LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
The Chemical Tanker E.C.E. (1)
Channel Island collision Alderney's Trent class Roy Barker I and St Peter Port's Severn class Spirit of Guernsey attended in the early hours of 31 January 2006 after chemical tanker fCf collided with the bulk carrier Crot-Rowecki....
Three Trawlers
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a French trawler in tow of another trawler appeared to be in difficulties half a mile south-east of the coast- guard station. At 11.40 the...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
Category: Medals
Sheringham
SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK On the 30th October, 1941, the Sheringham life-boat rescued fifteen of the crew of the S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall, of Montreal.
COXSWAIN JAMES E. DUMBLE was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
The Nigerian Fish-Factory Ship Azu
Lifeboat rescues 33 crew from grounded ship in gales and darkness A difficult service in very poor conditions in which 33 seamen were taken off grounded fish factory ship has led to Coxswain Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station...
The Motor Fishing Coble Doris
DECEMBER 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. About 5.45 P.M . it was learned that the motor fishing coble Doris had not returned. On board was the lifeboat coxswain, George Leng, with a crew of three. It was very dark, with a rough sea and a...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Meet The Lifesaving Team – See Centre Spread
Meet the lifesaving team – see centre spread. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Memorial at St. Anne's to the Victims of the Two Capsizing Accidents on 9Th December
The memorial at St Anne's to the victims of the two capsizing accidents on 9th December, 1886, when 27 lifeboatmen perished in the estuary.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs