LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
James Bower Award
COXSWAIN MARK BATES, of Kilmore, Co. Wexford, has become the third member of a life-boat crew to receive a gift from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.
This fund was established in 1955 by the Peninsular & Oriental...
Category: Awards
A New History of the Life-Boat Service
PEEHAPS the most charming thing in Patrick Howarth's most attractive book* is the way in which he has set his story. As he moves round the coast, apparently quite casually, from one carefully chosen life-boat station to another, he...
Category: Articles
The Severn (Left) and Trent Classes
The Severn (left) and Trent classes will be seen in increasing numbers as they replace older classes of lifeboat. This latest geneneration of afloat boat incorporates propeller protection.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three M.B.E's
Three honorary secretaries of life-boat stations, Mr. Walter Riggs, of Aldeburgh, Mr. G. Scantlebury, of Plymouth, and Mr. G. L. Thomson, of Stromness, Orknays, were made Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours in...
Category: Articles
A Tank Oil Steamer The San Ricardo
On the 14th March, during smooth but hazy weather, signals of distress were heard from a vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched and was tracked by the crew to the end of the North Pier where she was picked up by a tug and towed...
Crossing the Bar In a Hurricane
AT 2.20 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Hartland Point informed the honorary secretary of the Appledore life-boat station, Captain P. Brennan, that the Polish vessel Gliwice was in distress ten miles west-by...
Category: Services
The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
During the Recent Golden Wonder Promotion
During the recent Go/den Wonder promotion where money, in exchange for tokens from crisp packets, was donated to the RNLI, the pupils of Chennestone Middle School, Sunbury- on-Thames, collected 1,500 tokens. At a rate of 5p donated for every... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day
The organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day really know how to pull a crowd. This was the start last summer of the raft race as the numerous strangely clad contestants paddled past Teesmouth lifeboat. Also taking place that day was the now... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
That sinking feeling
MACDUFF AND BUCKIE | 21 JUNE
A lone skipper triggered an early morning rescue on Father’s Day after snagging a propeller and finding that his vessel had been holed. The boat – a decommissioned trawler...
Category: Articles