LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM G. SANDERS, on his retirement, after serving for 36J years as Coxswain of the Torbay Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certi- ficate of Service, and a Pension.
To THOMAS HAYES, on his retirement, after serving for 19 J...
Category: Awards
"Storm on the Waters"
Storm on the Waters - is the story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939-45. The full story cannot be told in the compass of a small book, but if Mr. Vince has had to omit much that we should like to see included, he has given us a...
Category: Articles
Life-Belts on Board Our Merchant-Ships
IT is now thirteen years ago that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, called previously to that time the " NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK," seriously undertook and commenced the national work of...
Category: Articles
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...
the Coxswain With His Crew All of Whom Were Awarded the Bronze Medal for Their Part In the Service to Revi: Crew Member Dennis Bailey Jnr Crew Member Peter
. . . the coxswain with his crew, all of whom were awarded the bronze medal for their part in the service to Revi: Crew Member Dennis Bailey, Jnr, Crew Member Peter Jordan, Motor Mechanic Bill Sayers, Superintendent Coxswain Bevan, Second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1975
Aldeburgh, Suffolk July 19.
Amble, Northumberland July 21.
Angle, Dyfed June 13, July 11, 21, 31 and August 6.
Anstruther, Tayside August 2.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow July 15,...
Category: Services
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...
A Challenge to Branches
The Record of North Sunderland and Stromness.
IN anarticlein The Lifeboat for November, 1925, on the centenary of the Appledore Station we gave the remarkable record of the present Committee, five members of which had...
Category: Branches
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Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...