LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The High-Speed Ferry St Malo
The service by St Helier's Tyne class lifeboat to the high-speed ferry St Malo - reported in the Summer issue of The Lifeboat- has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum to her ex-coxswain, Robert...
Members of the Thurso Lifeboat Crew
Members of the Thurso lifeboat crew are presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother after the naming ceremony of the station's new Arun class lifeboat. (Photo Aberdeen Press and Journal). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Queen Mother (Then Duchess of York)
The Queen Mother (then Duchess of York) in 1926 at the naming ceremony of the Watson Motor lifeboat John Russell at Montrose, one of the oldest RNLI lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Commercial Shipping: Taking Off the Crew
AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...
Category: Articles
The Screw Flat Tal Y Fan
PORTHDINLLAEN.—During a very heavy gale from the W.N.W., at about midday on the 14th October, a signal of distress was shown by the screw flat Tal y fan, of Liverpool, anchored in the bay. The Life-boat George Moore went off to her and...
The Norwegian Motor Tanker Athos, of Flekkefjord
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth. At 3.10 the motor life-boat John and Mary...
Life-Saving By the Coastguard In 1935
DURING 1935 the coastguard took action in the case of 733 vessels off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The rocket life-saving appar- atus companies were assembled 68 times for service and 87 people were brought to safety by...
Category: Articles
The Liberian Motor Vessel Tyne Ore
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.7 a.m.
on i8th September, 1966, the Liberian motor vessel Tyne Ore had a sick man on board who required urgent medicalattention. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at i.io....
The' Two—And Only—Members of the Georgian Branch Cliff Jardine Landlord of the George Hotel Beaconsfield and His Friend Sandy Bailey Have Raised 11,500 for the Lifeb
The' two—and only—members of the Georgian branch, Cliff Jardine, landlord of the George Hotel, Beaconsfield, and his friend Sandy Bailey have raised il,500 for the lifeboat service in two years with dinner-boxing and pro-am golf... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"One More for the Life-Boat Crew."
The lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds flew, Oh, wife ! from the shores they cry,' One more,' With strong, steady hand and true! There are lives to save On the frothing wave— One more for the...
Category: Poetry