LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Draw for a Gallon Bottle of Brandy
The draw for a gallon bottle of brandy, donated by Martell, was made at Kirkcudbright station annual dance last November.
Here, Coxswain George Davidson, DSM BEM, (r) presents the bottle to the winner, local blacksmith... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christine
Information was brought to the Lifeboat Station at 7.30 A.M. on the 18th February that a schooner was ashore close to the new entrance of the North Esk Kiver, about 3\ miles N., in Montrose Bay.
The Life-boatmen were at...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Porthcawl, Glamorganshire.—The fish- ing boat Lucky Boy, with a crew of four, got into difficulties on the afternoon of...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1863. THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meetings, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Wreck Register and Chart for the First Six Months of 1873
FOR many years past we have made a synopsis of the Home Wreck Register and Chart of the preceding twelve months, and we propose to follow, on the present occasion, the same course in reference to I the important and national document : which...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• Medical Aid at Accidents, by Roger Snook, MD (Update Publications, £5.75) is probably the only comprehensive book on the subject and covers all types of incident from under water to mountain top, though naturally the accent is on road...
Category: Articles
Towing Lines. a Discussion
Towing was an appropriate topic of conversation between this year's medal winning coxswains and Cdr George Cooper, the RNLl's deputy chief of operations. In three out of the four services recognised the casualty was towed to safety...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
courtesy of The Hull Daily Mail The Humber lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall is dwarfed by the blazing oil tanker Phillips Oklahoma. Sixteen seamen were taken off the tanker after a collision on 17 September 1989. Full details of the service on page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
VOL—KINGSGATE.
The Thomas Chapman, 28 feet long, 6 feet beam, 6 oars.
THE next Life-boat Station westward from Mar- gate, of which we gave some account in the Life- boat Journal for the last quarter, is...
Category: Articles
Gold (1)
Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.
Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...