LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
WAVING ANNIE GOODBYE
Wicklow lifeboat crew reflect on 30 years of lifesaving with the last of the Tyne class lifeboats – the Annie Blaker
In 1982, Dexy’s Midnight Runners got the world on the dancefloor. A little boy named William became third...
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October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
A Ship (1)
MARCH 1ST. - ABERDEEN. A ship had been attacked and set on fire, but all survivors were picked up by one of H.M. ships.- Rewards, £15 9s..
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
THE SOUTH BANK MEETINGS, MAY 13, 1986 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Apart from the citations for a silver and two bronze medals which received rapturous applause when they were read out to the audience at the Royal...
Category: Meetings
Feature: Come Together
On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
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Excel
On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
Book Reviews
THE third volume in Cyril Noall's and Grahame Farr's series Wreck and Rescue around the Cornish Coast (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 28s.) tells the history of life-boat stations on the south coast of Cornwall. These are: Mullion,...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
April Meeting.
Selsey, Sussex.—On the 8th April two men in a fishing-boat rescued the crew of two of another fishing-boat which had capsized—Rewards £2; and 2s. 6d. for fuel used. (For full account see page...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
North Eastern Division Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of...
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People and Places
Harold Harvey Former lifeboat inspector Harold Harvey, the holder of an RNLI Gold Medal for Gallantry, died on 23 August at the age of 71.
He had served the RNLI from 1952 until 1973 and won his Gold Medal for his actions...
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