LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.
The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1896
Jan. 9. — Voted 42. to four fishermen for putting off in a boat and saying four men whose boat bad been capsized while returning to tbeir vessel, the Baron Hill, of Liverpool, which was lying off Exmouth, in a strong W. gale on the 4th...
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Lifeboat Services
Three fishermen saved with just minutes to spare A;L long service in a severe gale and heavy, broken seas has earned Achill Island's Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic, Brian Patten, the RNLI's Silver Medal. The remainder of the crew will...
Category: Services
A Royal Air Force Launch
.—On the 21st Septem- ber one of two Royal Air Force launches which were on passage from Calshot to Felixstowe had trouble with her engine about two miles S.W. of the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The other launch made for Dover and telephoned to...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...
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Feature: Cromer's Famous Son
Cromer's famous son Henry Blogg is the most decorated RNLI crew member of all time. What kind of man was this lifeboating legend, and what did he do to earn such accolades? Henry Blogg's time as a crew member and coxswain was an...
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Riddled Ventilating Pipe from the Eastbourne Lifeboat Jane Holland After Visiting Dunkirk In 1940 and (Below) Special War Artist Bryan De Grineau's Impression of the Du
Riddled ventilating pipe from the Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Holland after visiting Dunkirk in 1940, and (below) special war artist Bryan de Grineau's impression of the Dunkirk evacuation in full swing. An RNLI lifeboat is... - View image in PDF
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Latest from Loch Ness
As reported in the last issue of the Lifeboat, Loch Ness lifeboat station joined the RNLI fold on 2 April, and the crew have since been out on a number of shouts. At the time of writing, they had assisted two grounded cruisers and two yachts...
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Ariel
Dover, Kent.—At 7.34 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard reported that the motor boat Ariel needed help near the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 7.51 in a very rough sea....