LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Albert Medal
confer the decoration of the Albert Medal of the second class on Sub-lieutenant LIONEL ANDROS DE SAUSMAREZ, R.N., of Her Ma- jesty's ship Myrmidon. The following is an account of the services in respect of which the decoration has been...
Category: Articles
Return the Favour
A painting of the Regina Mary lifeboat at Looe, donated by kind-hearted artist Merv Beaver, has raised over £500 for the RNLI.
The oil painting was raffled at the end of June during Looe lifeboat station's Seafront... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Belgian Motor Trawler Victoria
Ramsgate, Kent.—About 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing vessel aground on the Quern Shoal Brake Sands, and at 3.36 the life-boat Prudential was launched. A gale wasblowing from the...
The Joseph Rothwell Sykes and Hilda M on the Day of Her Naming Ceremony
The Joseph Rothwell Sykes and Hilda M on the Day of Her Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Yawl Lady Audrey
Ramsgate, Kent. — During the after- noon of the 6th of June, 1949, the honorary secretary had under observa- tion a sailing yawl cruising near the Brake Sands. In the evening she arrived off Ramsgate Harbour, but was carried eastwards with...
A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs
On 9Th July, 1968, the Torbay Life-Boat Princess Alexandra of Kent,
On 9th July, 1968, the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent, using radar, found a stranded ferry in dense fog and took off and landed 126 passengers and a dog in one go.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Henry Blogg. The First Sea Lord's Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
IN December, 1945, the Institution sent to Cromer one of the first two of a new type of 46-feet Watson -cabin life-boat. In them, for the first time, the steering wheels were placed amidships instead of at the stern. This boat was sent to...
Category: Inaugurations