LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
San Giorgio
The Lizard/Cadgwith, Cornwall-At 10.23 p.m. on 26th June, 1968, the honorary secretary picked up a radio distress call, confirmed shortly afterwards by the coastguard, that the trimaran San Giorgio was in difficulties 12 miles south south...
Jayne Edmunds and Eric Jones Were Each Presented With An Inscribed Wrist Watch
Jayne Edmunds and Erie Jones were each presented with an inscribed wrist watch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cav Ltd
Chosen for reliability QUEEN'S AWARD TO INDUSTRY 1966 1967 The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
LUCAS and...
Category: Advertisement
San Marino
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.8 p.m. on 2ist July, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a fishing vessel was in danger of going on to the rocks at Poolbeg.
The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 6.20 in a...
An Artist's Memories of the Life-Boat Service. From the Bay of Naples to Solway Firth
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1937 - 65,320 An Artist's Memories of the Life-boat Service From...
Category: Articles
Rescue In a Gale Near the Harbour Bar
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
North Again...
In this issue he reaches the most westerly station in England and shapes a course back up the coast to the north..Since dropping anchor in Fowey and rushing back for the ILF conference and the 175th celebrations in Poole so much has happened...
Category: Articles
How You Can Save By a Gift to the Institution
IT does not sound possible, but it i The following is a list of the cost of the is a fact that by making a large gift! different types of Life-boat and of these to the Institution during his life other parts of the equipment of the wealthy...
Category: Advertisement
Wendy
Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.28 in the afternoon of the 9th of May, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized three miles off Glynde Gap, and the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 12.43, in a moderate...
Coxswain H. J. Gawn
Coxswain Harry James Gawn, of Bembridge, who died on the 17th June, 1962, had served as coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat for 22$ years.
During this period Bembridge life-boat were launched on service 76 times and rescued...
Category: Obituaries