LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
War and the Life-Boat Service
THE War, the greatest in which a nation has ever been involved, has entirely absorbed public interest, and the purses which have been so generously opened to the innumerable appeals in connexion with the War have, almost of necessity, been...
Category: Articles
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
Taken from the Newhaven Lifeboat During Her Service to the French Trawler La Frangoise These Photographs Show the Severity of the Seas Faced By Coxswain Len Patten
Taken From The Newhaven Lifeboat During Her Service To The French Trawler La Frangoise These Photographs Show The Severity of the Seas Faced By Coxswain Len Patten. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
Janbyrd & Magna Charta
After dark on the 1st of November, the Life-boat George Gay, in answer to signals of distress observed from Penarth, proceeded to the roadstead, where she found two vessels in collision; a strong breeze from the S.W. was blowing at the time,...
When the Pilot of a Lightning Jet Aircraft from Leuchars Had to Abandon His Aircraft on 4Th March, 1970, Life-Boats from Broughty Ferry and Anstruther Searched for Him In Darkness.
When the pilot of a Lightning jet aircraft from Leuchars had to abandon his aircraft on 4th March, 1970, life-boats from Broughty Ferry and Anstruther searched for him in darkness. The body of the pilot was finally found by the Broughty crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Thanks of the Air Ministry.
The Air Council wrote on 18th March, 1941, "To convey their thanks to the Institution for their continued and valuable work in aiding the rescue of airmen who have been forced to land in the sea." The letter went on, "The...
Category: Articles
Commander H F P Grenfell Dsc
Commander H. F. P. Grenfell, DSC JP, a member of the Committee of Management from 1948. Commander Grenfell was made a vice-president of the Institution in 1961 and a life vicepresident in 1974. He also served on the boat and construction sub...
Category: Obituaries
"Life-Boat Saturday."
FULL many a tongue and full many a pen Has told of the praise of the Life-boat men.
Their daring deeds are their country's boast, From the Shetland Isles to the Cornish coast; From treacherous quicksand and sunken rock...
Category: Poetry
Early start
27 October 2012: The volunteer crew at Castletownbere were denied a Saturday morning lie-in, launching at 5am to a 33m Spanish fishing trawler, which had grounded on the western point of Bere Island, Co Cork. All...
Category: Articles