LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Greek Motor Vessel Doriefs
Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 16th June, 1961, a message was received that there was a sick child aboard the Greek motor vessel Doriefs, who ought to be brought ashore. The vessel was making for Penzance. The weather was...
The Newquay Fishing Vessel Talisman
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9.12 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that the Newquay fishing vessel Talisman was without fuel one mile off St. Agnes Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George Orlando and Eva Child was launched in a...
A Night With the Ramsgate Life-Boat. One Hundred and Twenty Lives Saved
I.—DISASTERS AT SEA. THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
To lie awake listening to the storm,—to hear the rush of the wind, now moaning in the chimney, now thundering at the windows, against which the rain beats and hustles,—to...
Category: Articles
The International 505 Yacht Rogue
TWO LANDED FROM CAPSIZED RACING YACHT Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 2.50 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th of August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from a member of the public who had seen a red flare being burnt on board a...
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
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
(Left) Applause from the Audience
(left) Applause from the audience as the awards are presented. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robert and Marcella Beck Which In a Near Gale on January 13 1942 Saved An Raaf Sunderland Flying Boat from the Rocks on to Which She Was Drifting for This Servic
Robert and Marcella Beck which, in a near gale on January 13, 1942, saved an RAAF Sunderland flying boat from the rocks on to which she was drifting. For this service Coxswain Walter Crowlher was awarded a bronze medal.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE On the 3rd February, 1940, three attempts were made by the Whitby life-boat to rescue the crew of the S.S. Charles, of Bruges.
MOTOR MECHANIC JAMES PHILPOT was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
THIS important subject, so intimately con- nected with the work of the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, has from time to time been treated of in our columns; but it is one of such general interest that any later information on the subject...
Category: Articles